Three distinctions emerge. First, lexical transfer and figurative attribution are not identical. Second, each direction of dependence between implicit and imaginative metaphor requires its own argument. Third, an associated feature may be the clue to implicit comparison without requiring every clue to be the same kind of hypothetical bodily object.
QuestionTest
Where is the figure?Word, attribution, or whole expression
What is the clue?Sign that redirects from literal sense
What is the resemblance?Semantic basis of transfer
Is dependence necessary?Direction of claim and counterexamples
The next chapter asks not only whether a metaphor is technically recognizable, but also what makes a metaphor aesthetically strong and rhetorically effective.