Metaphors



Metaphors:

Spatial orientation: note that spatial orientation metaphors are almost never used in place of color terms, but instead added on to form expressions like “bright ahead” or “dark far”
 * Front, ahead, facing us, near, toward:


 * Known, familiar
 * Obvious
 * Main, dominant
 * Foreground
 * Future
 * Bright, vividly colored*
 * Back, behind, back turned toward us, far, away from:


 * Unknown, unfamiliar
 * Unobvious
 * Periphery, secondary
 * Background
 * Past
 * Black, dark*
 * Foreground, main:


 * Known, familiar
 * Background, periphery:


 * Unknown, unfamiliar
 * In, inside, center, interior:


 * Change, transformation
 * Control
 * New
 * White*
 * Content
 * Form, shape
 * Out, outside, surface, exterior:


 * Origin, beginning, start
 * Old
 * Grey*
 * Surface
 * Boundary
 * Up, top, upward, high, rise:


 * Light
 * Small
 * Less
 * Part of a whole
 * Insignificant
 * Weak, less intense
 * Decrease
 * Quiet
 * High-pitched
 * Blue*
 * Down, top, downward, low, fall:

Appearance and color:
 * Heavy
 * Big
 * More
 * Whole, all
 * Important
 * Strong, more intense
 * Increase
 * Loud
 * Low-pitched
 * Brown*
 * Visible, color:


 * Surface
 * Unseen:


 * Content, form, shape
 * Black, dark:


 * Unknown, mysterious
 * White:


 * New
 * Cold
 * Grey


 * Old
 * Bright, vividly colored:


 * Obvious, well-known
 * Red:


 * Hot
 * Blue:


 * Sky
 * Brown:

Textural:
 * Ground
 * Tactile, texture:


 * Surface
 * Non-tactile:


 * Content, form, shape
 * Smooth:


 * Stable, consistent, regular
 * Lumpy, bumpy:


 * Unstable, inconsistent, irregular
 * Soft:


 * Friendly, comforting, kind
 * Hard:


 * Unfriendly, hostile, mean
 * Liquid, wet:


 * Interesting
 * Motion, action, moving
 * Dry:


 * Boring, uninteresting, uneventful
 * Stationary
 * Bland