The Metaphor Developing a Sense of Where We

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The MetaphorDeveloping a Sense of Where Were
Headed

• Based on
• Extreme Software Engineering
• Daniel H. Steinberg Daniel W. Palmer

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Metaphor A Definition

• Definition
• A metaphor is a figure of speech in which an
  expression refers to something it does not
  literally denote to suggest a similarity.
• Example
• The ship plows the sea.

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Simile

• Definition
• A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in
  one or more of its aspects, to something else.
• Example
• A ship sailing a sea is like a plow plowing a
  field.

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Finding Common Linguistic Ground

• Similes metaphors enable clients developers
  to speak the same language.

Domain Knowledge
CS Knowledge
Metaphor Knowledge