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Download full textDykstra, Jeanne; Dykstra, Frank E. – 1997
Synectics is the use of thinking in metaphors, or figurative language in general, to see the familiar in unfamiliar ways or the unfamiliar in familiar ways. W.J.J. Gordon and his Cambridge Synectics Group isolated ways to think metaphorically by using artistic problem-solving mechanisms most people possess in their experiential background. This…
Descriptors: Analogy, Creative Thinking, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing
