…target sentences more fluently in the matched than in the mixed or literal contexts, which is consistent with prior work on the role of context in metaphor processing (Gerrig & Healy, 1983; Gibbs & Gerrig, 1989; Giora, 2003; Nayak & Gibbs, 1990; Ortony et al., 1978; Thibodeau & Durgin, 2008).