Phrases and clauses may give the appearance of being tacked on haphazardly. He is the very pineapple of politeness. The dog ran across the lawn, emitting whelps all along the way. How easy it is to defeat people who do not kindle fire for themselves. Roman Jakobson has identified metaphor and metonymy as the primary tropes , passing down to modern critical thinking a basic distinction between metaphor as indicating similarity and metonymy as revealing contiguity.
Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
Broadly viewed, metaphor indicates similarity, metonymy contiguity. Her voice is full of money. All portions of these materials are copyright 2000 Armstrong Atlantic State University.