Rhetoric and metaphor : Asst. Prof : Ra'ad Alnawaas

Abstract EN

Rhetoric is a tool that helps to enhance composition: its aim is to express, to persuade, to inform a personal thought or to entertain the reader .One of its important devices is metaphor which is a figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics.

This research investi ates metaphor in English language and its types .It falls into two sections the first one talks about rhethoric in general, and it introduces a chronological definitions of rhetoric, also referring to the uses of rhetoic in our daily life .

The second section introduces metaphor in English language and its definitions .It also refers to the relation between the concept and metaphor .This section refers to the most important types of metaphor which are: Live, dead, structural, Orientational, Ontalogical, complex, extended, also also shows the most important functions of these types.