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'Metaphors Be With You' Offers Insight Into The Metaphor

WUNC | By Frank Stasio,
Charlie Shelton
Published December 6, 2016 at 12:06 PM EST
'Metaphors Be With You: An A-to-Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations'
Courtesy of Harper Collins
'Metaphors Be With You: An A-to-Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations'
'Metaphors Be With You: An A-to-Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations'
Credit Courtesy of Harper Collins
'Metaphors Be With You: An A-to-Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations'

Poet Robert Frost once said, "An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor."

Dr. MardyGrothe, author and retired psychologist, has channeled the words of Frost into a new anthology of metaphors called "Metaphors Be With You: An A-to-z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations" (HarperCollins/2016). Grotheexamines the figure of speech by curating thousands of metaphors spanning 250 topics.

 Host Frank Stasio talks with Dr. Mardy Grothe about his new book, "Metaphors Be With You".

Host FrankStasiotalks withGrotheabout what makes an influential metaphor and how metaphors have shaped communication.Grothespeaks at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 6 at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh and at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 8 at the Country Bookshop in Southern Pines. 

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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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