u??????? metaphorá, 'transference (of ownership)', from u??????? metaphero, 'to carry over, to transfer' and that from u??? meta, 'behind, along with, across' + ???? phero, 'to bear, to carry'.

Parts of a metaphor

The Philosophy of Rhetoric (1936) by rhetorician I. A. Richards describes a metaphor as having two parts: the tenor and the vehicle. The tenor is the subject to which attributes are ascribed.

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