The Concept of Metaphor Relating to Public Speeches

This book presents a detailed description of the use of metaphor in the political speeches in general and the public speeches of the Iraqi politicians in particular. Metaphor is a figure of speech in which one thing is compared with another by saying that one is the other as in He is a lion. metaphor is a property of words; it is a linguistic phenomenon. The metaphorical use of a lion is a characteristic of a linguistic expression (that of the word lion). Second metaphor is used for some artistic and rhetorical purpose such as when Shakespeare writes “the entire world’s a stage.” Third metaphor is based on a resemblance between the two entities that are compared and identified.