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METAPHOR

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 224 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
METAPHOR (Gr. era^Popa,
transfer
  of sense, from eracApeiv, to carry over)', a figure of speech, which consists in the transference to one
object
  of an attribute or name which strictly and literally is not applicable to it, but only figuratively and by
analogy
 . It is thus in essence an emphatic comparison, which if expressed formally is a "simile " (Lat. similis, like); thus it is a metaphorical expression to speak of a
ship
  ploughing her way through the waves, but a simile when it takes the
form
  of " the
ship
 , like a plough, moves," &c. The "
simple
  " metaphor, such as the instance given, becomes the " continued " metaphor when the
analogy
  or similitude worked out yin a
series
  of phrases and expressions based on the
primary
  metaphor; it is in such " continued metaphors " that the solecism of " mixed " metaphors is likely to occur.


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