Does the problem lie with the tenor or is it the vehicle? Who cares, right? Well, if you’re trying to fix a mixed metaphor, it helps to know which part seems off. Personification – the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman Synechdoche – a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “Cleveland’s baseball team”). Metonymy – the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing. ![]() Other types of metaphors are (definitions from Google search): That’s why metaphors are more powerful than similes, which only declare a thing is like another, not the same. She could have written, My heart is a singing bird, but she didn’t take it that far. Heart is the tenor, a singing bird is the vehicle. In this simile, Christina Rosetti compares a heart to a singing bird. Similes are metaphors that use like or as between the tenor and the vehicle. Take a look at the image below for a couple examples. The vehicle is the thing the subject is compared to. ![]() The tenor is the the subject of the metaphor. Metaphors have two parts: tenor and vehicle.
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