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This paper is to analyze some metaphors in English and Korean by M. Apter's view of cognitive synergy. His synergic view focuses on two kinds of cognitive synergies. One kind is cognitive synergy superimposed on the same identity ; the other, the cognitive one superimposed on two identities including oxymoron. He utilizes Euler diagrams to develop his theory. I adopted his second type because it seems to me that it gives more attention to metaphors. I narrowed my analysis into three types of metaphors : (1) Oxymoron, (2) ‘A rose is a rose’ type, (3) ‘A is B’ type. Apter's theory based on the similarity between two identities. His similarity seems to me to be objective. Instead of it, I suggest that it be a higher-concept governing two lower ones, which is mentally connected.