Caleb Darkes-Burkey says:

Life is a Roller Coaster-A roller coaster represents the ups and downs of life. Just as a roller coaster can be fast, slow, smooth, or bumpy, just can life. Roller coasters can leave you feeling amazing or sick. This is also true to life.
Theories are Buildings- shaky argument, support a theory, foundation for a theory, the theory will stand or fail based on the strength of the argument, they exploded his latest theory. These are all examples of how theories are like buildings.
Ideas are food- raw facts, half-baked ideas, argument smells fishy, to swallow a claim, devour a book, to spoon-feed students, and the meaty part of the paper. These are all examples of our ideas can be compared to food.
All three of these examples show the complexity of the English Language. No, we do not literally explode theories, ride a roller coaster through life, or devour a book, but we say these things nonetheless.
To cite my sources, some of this information was taken from: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/575/F01/lakoff.johnson80.pdf


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