Metaphor Reference library
W. Martin
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4 ed.)
...at them,” it would have been a meta-phor. In one case, according to Aristotle, the comparison is explicit (using like or as ); in the other, the word lion is “transferred” to Achilles, but the meaning is the same. Quintilian endorsed Aristotle’s view of metaphor as a condensed simile: “in the latter we compare some object to the thing which we wish to describe, whereas in the former the object is actually substituted for the thing.” What Black has called the “comparison view” of metaphor is based on the grammatical form “A is B”; metaphor is seen as a...
