What is a metaphor?
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It is often confused with metonymy, but while
the metaphor (from the Greek meta, beyond and phorein, porter) is
based on a relationship of similarities between two realities,
metonymy (from the Greek meta, beyond and onoma, name) is based
on a neighborhood relationship and a logical relationship between two
realities. And to put it even more clearly, the metaphor
is a comparison which dispenses with a grammatical element such
as "
as, such, as well as, similar
", etc.
But it does not matter, after all, these learned distinctions, it
suffices for me to quote you here the most famous, the one that everyone
uses to explain the metaphor by telling us
that Victor Hugo compares the moon to a golden sickle. .
But I
find it too unfortunate to extract this last line from
Sleeping
Booz
without feasting on the preceding ones:
The thin and clear crescent among these shadowy blossoms Shined in the west, and Ruth wondered, Motionless, half-opening her eyes under her veils, What a god, what a reaper of eternal summer, Had, in s 'on the way, casually thrown This golden sickle into the field of stars.
Victor Hugo
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In everyday language
As for the metaphors that have entered everyday language and that we have difficulty perceiving as such, here are three on which I will let you ponder: the wage freeze,
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