The main approaches of Artistic metaphor are active metaphoric approach,existential metaphor and potential metaphor.

The Development of Metaphorical Competence in EFL Learnwes;

This paper attempts to illuminate the interrelations between metaphor,thoughts and language,probes into the necessity and feasibility of fostering English learners’ metaphor awareness and metaphorical competence,and explore a tentative teaching approach that conforms to the reform of College English teaching.

Based on the resemblance and contextuality of metaphor,along with metaphoric thought,this paper mainly explores the function of metaphoric competence and its construction on SLA,which will bring about the practical sense and applicable value to SLA.

The use of metaphoric language and the cultivation of metaphoric competence should also be regarded as the target of L2 acquisition.

The present dissertation reports an empirical study of the correlation between metaphoric competence and the English proficiency of the third-year Chinese EFL learners.

By analyzing the symbolic implications and metaphoric function of the historical texts in the novel, he points out that those historical texts as intertexts will be different from the fictional texts, and tension between them will sabotage or even overthrow the orthodox conception and consciousness of history.

The metaphor of color words in the abnormal structure of attribute and its modifying elements;

It further studied human taste and sentiment towards beauty which is influenced by advertisement s metaphor and supposition.

In so doing,Fei Ming is unconsciously inclined to Jacobson s viewpoint on the usage of metaphors,which accounts for the origin of "modernism" in his novels.