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Implicit metaphor does not separate from imaginative metaphor.
The important question is the direction of necessity. Does every implicit metaphor require an imaginative accompaniment? Does every imaginative construction, in turn, require an implicit metaphor? These are not identical claims.
Some accounts place an implicit comparison first and treat imaginative attribution of its source-associated feature as completing it. Other explanations discuss examples where an imaginative sign or a hidden comparison does not satisfy the other school’s universal condition.