With lexical metaphor we compress more information into a statement by using words from a different context. (“I burned for revenge.”)
There’s another kind of metaphor, though, called grammatical metaphor.
Honestly, grammatical metaphor is really hard to explain; it's another way of compressing information, and you find it a lot in history and science texts.
One way we do this is though a technique called nominalisation, where we treat events like things.
Here's a snippet with three examples of nominalisation. Can you find them?
