string: …1 was designed to confirm that manipulating the context for metaphoric target sentences can affect how quickly people process the metaphors (Gerrig &Healy, 1983; Gibbs & Gerrig, 1989; Giora, 2003; Nayak & Gibbs, 1990; Ortony, Schallert, Reynolds, & Antos, 1978; Thibodeau & Durgin, 2008).