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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesmétaphore visuelle
Pronunciation / Transliteration: mey-ta-for viz-well
"Cette affiche publicitaire utilise une métaphore visuelle saisissante."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A figure of speech manifested in visual art or imagery where a concept or object is represented by comparing it to a completely different visual object, sharing implicit similarities.
"The advertisement relied on a clever pictorial metaphor of a melting clock to convey the rapid loss of time during a busy workday." - 2
In communication studies and visual rhetoric, a non-verbal representation that maps semantic attributes from a source domain to a target domain within a single image.
"Political cartoons often use pictorial metaphors to criticize governance through instantly recognizable symbolic imagery."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
The term combines 'pictorial', originating from the Latin 'pictus' (painted) via late Middle English, with 'metaphor', derived from the Greek 'metaphora' meaning 'transfer'. Formed in modern semiotics and art theory during the late 20th century, it describes the visual representation of conceptual associations where one object is depicted as another.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Pictorial Metaphor" is said worldwide
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métaphore visuelle
Transliteration: mey-ta-for viz-well
"Cette affiche publicitaire utilise une métaphore visuelle saisissante."
bildliche Metapher
Transliteration: bilt-li-chə me-ta-fər
"Das Kunstwerk enthält eine komplexe bildliche Metapher."
metafora visiva
Transliteration: me-ta-fo-ra vi-zi-va
"La vignetta politica si basa su una forte metafora visiva."
metáfora visual
Transliteration: me-ta-fo-ra bi-sual
"El diseño gráfico emplea una metáfora visual para explicar el concepto."
metáfora visual
Transliteration: me-ta-fo-ra vi-zu-aw
"A propaganda utiliza uma metáfora visual muito criativa."
चित्रमयी रूपक
Transliteration: chitramayi rupak
"विज्ञापन में एक प्रभावी चित्रमयी रूपक का प्रयोग किया गया है।"
视觉隐喻
Transliteration: shì jué yǐn yù
"这幅海报巧妙地运用了视觉隐喻。"
시각적 은유
Transliteration: sigakjeok eun-yu
"그 그래픽 디자인은 강렬한 시각적 은유를 담고 있습니다."
視覚的隠喩
Transliteration: shikakuteki inyu
"このポスターは巧みな視覚的隠喩を使用しています。"
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