From many centuries of observation it is well known that an ecology based on a monoculture is highly vulnerable to threats that are introduced from the outside.

Example of biological metaphor. An example might be In the heat of the moment she turned to ice and danced to the beat of her own drum Here we start with a metaphor comparing heat and ice but then we switch to a metaphor involving the beat of her own drum It makes for a less than congruous connection as the reader must jump from one metaphor to the next so suddenly. In capitalism money is the life blood of society but charity is the soul. Storms are a piece of life similarly just like a characteristic piece of each biological system.

Nonself discrimination a well-known example of metaphor in biology. The light flows into the bowl of the midnight sky violet amber and rose. As Väliverronen 1998 has pointed out a metaphor has dual character.

Biological metaphor of urban evolution. Men court not death when there are sweets still left in life to taste. For example Shes walking a tightrope with her grades this semester Dead Metaphors - Like clichés these metaphors have lost their punch through over-usage.

You follow life like you follow a river. The utterance of an expression with its literal meaning and corresponding set of truth conditions can in various ways that are specific to metaphor call to mind another meaning and corresponding set of truth conditions p. In the context of an analogy to biology urban can be seen as organic and many concepts from biology can be borrowed to explain the uncertainty and relativ-ity of urban growth processes.

It is a richer term that incorporates the elements that form the biological composition of an organization. An example of a dead metaphor would be the body of an essay In this example body was initially an expression that drew on the metaphorical image of human anatomy applied to the subject matter in question. For example they are shown a picture of dramatically counterposed ice floes and open water.

Whose world is but the trembling of a flare. In Expression and Meaning 1985 the Berkeley philosopher John Searle defines metaphor as a species of as if discourse. In the first place it lacks consistency.