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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 224 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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METAPHOR (Gr. µera^Popa, See also:

transfer of sense, from µeracApeiv, to carry over)', a figure of speech, which consists in the transference to one See also:object of an attribute or name which strictly and literally is not applicable to it, but only figuratively and by See also:analogy. It is thus in essence an emphatic comparison, which if expressed formally is a "simile " (See also:Lat. similis, like); thus it is a metaphorical expression to speak of a See also:ship ploughing her way through the waves, but a simile when it takes the See also:form of " the ship, like a plough, moves," &c. The " See also:simple " metaphor, such as the instance given, becomes the " continued " metaphor when the analogy or similitude worked out yin a See also:series of phrases and expressions based on the See also:primary metaphor; it is in such " continued metaphors " that the solecism of " mixed " metaphors is likely to occur.

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