This is true. Metaphors do not represent literal/denotative meaning and require some connotation to be involved.
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it's when you motivate yourself negatively. Or just a punishisment based boosting method to make you stop doing a certain thing. (Smoking, drugs, etc.)
The answer is ducks
Hope I helped
You could pose questions ...
"What does it mean to be an adult? Is it based on age? Is it based on employment? Is it a gut feeling? More important perhaps than these questions, is how the sense of being an adult helps one assume a larger role in our society."
I'm not sure exactly how you plan to go about your paper or what ideas you are exploring within your writing, so this might not work entirely. Nevertheless, I think it could be a good place for you to start.
