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Contrast Discussions
Table of Figurative Meanings
Table of a few figurative meanings
of the contrasts shown in Figure 4 (viewer, box-frame, room)
| Perceptual Contrast: | Sample Concepts: | Figures of
Speech: |
| Top/bottom - Up/down
| Power,
Social Class
Abstraction | control over,top
dog, underdog
high, middle, low, under-
highly abstract, down to
earth |
| Front/back | Time
Progress |
looking forward, looking back
moving
forward, leaving behind |
| Left/Right | Judgement
Comparison
| balancing both sides
On the one hand...on the other |
| Inside/outside | Category
Hidden
reality
| in an area or container
"inner child" |
| Light/shadow | Consciousness
| Light of Reason, the Jungian shadow (repressed potential) |
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