Chapter 4 Sense and Communication Metaphors

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Chapter 4Sense and Communication Metaphors

• Five Senses Taste, Smell, Touch, Hearing, Sight
• See also Chapter 5 Plant and Food Metaphors
• Communication Music, Voice, Writing

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Vocabulary Plus A Source-Based
Approachwww.ablongman.com/nilsen

• By Don L. F. Nilsen
• And Alleen Pace Nilsen

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Visual Double Entendre
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Black White Basic Metaphors
Black eye Black hole in space Black market Black out Black tie event Blackball someone Blackbird Blackboard Blackjack Blackmail Blacksmith In the black (accounting) White-collar crime White elephant gift The White House White lie White lightening (moonshine whiskey) White out (blizzard) White sale (linens) (Nilsen Nilsen 76-77, 96, 99)
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Red Yellow BluePrimary-Color Metaphors
Caught red handed In the red Red alert Red-blooded American Red-eye flight Red Cross Red herring Red-letter day Redcap Redcoat Redhead Redneck Reds (Communists) Redshirting an athlete Rouge Stanford Cardinal Washington Redskins Roll out the red carpet --------------- Jaundiced ?Fr jaune yellow Old Yeller by Fred Gipson Yellow fever Yellow Pages Yellowjacket Black and blue Blue chip stocks Blue collar worker Bluebird Bluecoats (Union army) The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Bluegrass state Blueprint Blues (New Orleans) Out of the blue (Nilsen Nilsen 76-77, 95, 97, 99)
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Green BrownNatural Metaphors
Green card Green produce (not ripe) Green with envy Greenbacks Green grocer (sells vegetables) Greenhouse Greenhouse effect (atmospheric warming) Greenlight (traffic) Greenlight (go-ahead) Greens (vegetables) Greens fees (golf) Brown (name) Brownies (confection) Brownies (magical elves) Brown bag presentation Brown Betty (apple cobbler) Brown out Brownstone brick (Nilsen Nilsen 76-77, 97-98)
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Grey Orange Pink PurpleNon-Basic Colors
Gandolf the Grey Gray winter days Gray Panthers Grey beard Grey matter (brains) Greyhound The greying of America Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Orange (fruit) Orangeman Society (North of Ireland) Pink Bollworm (eats cotton) Pink-Collar workers (women) Pinkeye Pinkie finger Pinko (Communist leanings) Tickled pink Purple Heart Purple Passage (for writers) The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Nilsen Nilsen 97-98)
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Greek phone (sound)Latin sonus (sound)Latin
cantare (singing)
Cacophonous Euphonious Microphone Phonics Phonograph Phonology Symphony Telephone Consonant Resonate Resounding Sonata Sonic boom Sonnet Sonogram (in medicine) Sonorous Sound idea Ultrasound Chant Chanteys (what sailors sing as they work) Cantor Encanto Park Enchantments Incantations (Nilsen Nilsen 89)
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Latin tonus (tension)as with the vocal folds
Intonation Monotone Monotonous Loony Tunes Tone (color nuance) Tone down the confrontation Tone up the body Tonette (musical instrument) Tune (musical piece) Tune into a radio station Tune someone in or out Tune up an instrument (Nilsen Nilsen 90-91)
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Music L opus (work) Gk oide (song)
Bandwagon Conducting research Marching to a different drummer Orchestrating Magnus Opus Cf. Chef doeuvre (masterpiece) Cf. Hors doeuvre appetizer Opera ? L opus (work job) Opus Melody Ode Parody ? Gk para (alongside) oide (song) (Nilsen Nilsen 91)
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Musical Instruments
Arpegio (played as if on a harp) Brake drum Drum stick Drumming up business Ear drum Fiddle sticks Fiddler crab Flauta (food) Fluted collar Fluted column Harp seal Harping about something Harpsichord Horn (originally animals horn) Horn of plenty Horned owl Hornet Horny Lyrical Lyricist Lyrics Organ Pipe Cactus Pied Piper Piping (Nilsen Nilsen 93-94)
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Theatre Words
1st 2nd stage Applaud ? L laud (praise acclaim) Applause Laudable Magna Cum Laude Summa Cum Laude Cf G laut (sound) Cf E loud Offstage Ovation ? L ovare (exult) Stagecoach Upstaging someone (Nilsen Nilsen 89, 92)
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Communication Metaphors
Called on the carpet Cat call Chat room Chatterbox Communicable disease A cry for help A crying shame Something unspeakable Speakeasy (during prohibition) Speaker of the House Taking Communion To talk (reveal secrets) Tellers cage Walkie Talkie Within shouting distance (neighbors) (Nilsen Nilsen 79-80)
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Etymologies
Obi-Wan Error HAL ?IBM SPAM (Spiced hAM) USTL (Use the Source, Luke) Vulcan Nerve Pinch (Nilsen Nilsen 77-78)
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Latin Dicere (Speak)Latin Jocus (Joke)Latin
Lexis (Word)
Dictaphone Dictator Dictatorial Diction Dictionary Dictum Jocund Joke The Joker Juggler Lexical Lexicographer Lexicon (Nilsen Nilsen 82)
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Latin Loquere (Speak)Latin Plangere
(Lament)Latin Quere (Ask)
Circumlocution Colloquial Colloquium Colloquy Elocution Eloquent Grandiloquence Loquacious Ventriloquist (Nilsen Nilsen 84) Complainant Complaint Plaintiff Plaintive Query Quest Question Questionable Inquest Inquiry
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Latin Onyma (Name)
Acronym Anonymous Antonym Aptronym Caconym Cryptonym Eponym Euphonym Heteronym Homonym Metonymy Name Nickname Nominal Nomination Patronym Penname Pseudonym Stressonym Synonym (Nilsen Nilsen 83)
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Latin Parabola (Comparison)
Parable Parabola (in geometry) Parlay a bet ? F parler (speak) Parley (conference) Parliament Parliamentary procedure Parlor Parse (a sentence) Parseltongue (in Harry Potter books) (Nilsen Nilsen 83)
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Vox Latin for Voice
Avocation (hobby) Equivocation Invocation Provoke Revoked licence To equivocate To evoke To invoke harsh punishment Vocation Vox populi (Nilsen Nilsen 81)
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Alphabet Shapes
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More Alphabet Shapes
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Germanic Spel (tale) Latin Scribere (to write)
Greek Graphein (writing or drawing)
Casting a spell Magic spell Sit a spell (while) Spell out (be specific) Spelling bee Spell-binding (story teller) Conscription (army) Describe Inscribe Manuscript P.S. Prescription Scribe Scribble Scripted Scripture Scrivener Subscribe Autograph Cartography (from René DesCartes) Demographics Graffiti Graph Graphemes Graphite Graphic Graphologist Monograph Polygraph test (Nilsen Nilsen 87)
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Latin Signum (mark)Greek Stizein (tattoo)Latin
Rhetorica (oratory)
Assigned Design Designate Ensign (Navy) Insignia Resignation Sign (of things to come) Signal Signature Signet ring Significant Signify Stigma Stigmata Stigmatized Rhetoric Rhetorical (insignificant) Rhetorical question Rhetorician (Nilsen Nilsen 87-88)
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!SignifyingChristian Fish
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!!SignifyingChristian Aquarium
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!!!Canadian Signifying Jack and Jacquesdiscuss
English vs. French
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Reference

• Nilsen, Alleen Pace, and Don L. F. Nilsen.
  Vocabulary Plus High School and Up A Source
  Based Approach. Boston, MA Parson/Allyn Bacon,
  2004.
• www.ablongman.com/nilsen