Add to ORKGMetaphor has long been a mesmerizing literary phenomenon that attracted attention of literary critics and brought joy and fulfillment to literary hedonists. It shows the writers greatness of talent in presenting the ordinary in an extraordinary artistic fashion, of transforming the plain into the sublime, of overcoming the physical in favor of the transcendent. However, with the discovery of conceptual metaphor within Cognitive Linguistics, scientific community and ordinary people were baffled. It turned out that metaphor is not at all a novel linguistic and literary creation, but rather an omnipresent everyday occurrence. Furthermore, metaphor became a matter of thought rather than language, and this thought was characterized by being embo...