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Online task 4

Write a brief paper of 200 words on the following question:

Based on your readings of Lakoff and Johnson's Metaphors We Live By, Segal's Myth and Schank and Abelson's Schema theory (in Knowledge and Memory, available at: http://cogprints.org/636/1/KnowledgeMemory_SchankAbelson_d.html) explain how myth, metaphor and schema function similarly in understanding a cultural text/narrative. What is the difference?