(Conceptual) Metaphor (.net) Figurative language resource online

Time to pull some
Hindustan Times, India - 1 hour ago
The line-up promises the traditional rod, string and shadow tropes, but also includes contemporary puppetry-focussed cinema and object theatre; ...

Public Citizen on medical malpractice
Point of Law, NY - Jan 13, 2007
The study repeats the standard trope of "small percentage of doctors responsible for large percentage of malpractice" without making any adjustments or ...

Medication Nation
Washington Post, DC - Jan 13, 2007
This disturbing trope may cause readers to wonder whether DeGrandpre is fighting an ideology or advancing one. The problem with DeGrandpre's argument is ...

The last way forward
The Argus, CA - Jan 12, 2007
... have more of a stake in their nation's success) and includes too many tired tropes (the war in Iraq is a central front in the war against terrorism). ...

Cardiac arrest
Buffalo News, NY - Jan 12, 2007
... irreverent attitude, hellbound guitars and tough-to-miss hooks still has plenty of life left in it, and like all recurring rock 'n' roll tropes, ...

Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Paste Magazine, GA - Jan 8, 2007
While, lyrically, Blood Mountain cloaks itself in some of the cartoonish tropes of metal’s rune-littered psycho-tundra, musically it’s absolutely ...

fps: The Magazine of AnimationAfro Samurai
fps, Canada - Jan 4, 2007
... part American), Afro Samurai is set in an indeterminate future where the tropes of every movie set in feudal Japan run up against cell phones, ...

AfterEllen.comInterview with Sarah Dougher
AfterEllen.com - Jan 3, 2007
The other day I played a show with Michelle Tea and Zoe Trope. And it was four days after my surgery and I was up on stage, and I was playing guitar and I ...

'The Good German': Frozen in the '40s
Washington Post, DC - Dec 21, 2006
Of the old-movie tropes, the one that's most harmful to the film is Thomas Newman's score. No doubt that it's tonally correct to the period, but while the ...

The Trouble with Tropes
Alternate Reality Gaming Network, NV - Dec 18, 2006
The UK-based U-media is working on a new product called a trope: an "entirely new media form [...] that reproduces an experience exactly – down to emotions ...