Comments on: Adjectival Animals and Related Topics http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=49 A Blog about Words and Language(s) from alphaDictionary.com Tue, 21 May 2013 19:53:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 By: rbeard http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=49&cpage=1#comment-402 rbeard Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:17:23 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=49#comment-402 "Metaphor", as I have always heard it used, is not a specific but a general term, as the AHD notes, "A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in 'a sea of troubles' or 'All the world's a stage' (Shakespeare)." Thus a metaphor could be a simile, a hyperbole (as in the first example here), synecdoche (as in the second), or any other form of comparison. There probably is a specific rhetorical name for this but it still escapes me. “Metaphor”, as I have always heard it used, is not a specific but a general term, as the AHD notes, “A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in ‘a sea of troubles’ or ‘All the world’s a stage’ (Shakespeare).” Thus a metaphor could be a simile, a hyperbole (as in the first example here), synecdoche (as in the second), or any other form of comparison.

There probably is a specific rhetorical name for this but it still escapes me.

]]> By: allison http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=49&cpage=1#comment-393 allison Tue, 03 Oct 2006 19:31:20 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=49#comment-393 Suggestion: Rather than making up a phrase like "direct simile" you could use a term that already addresses the situation: metaphor. Suggestion: Rather than making up a phrase like “direct simile” you could use a term that already addresses the situation: metaphor.

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