Conditions of Excellent Metaphor: Good Simile, Clarity, and Imaginative Force
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- What is the primary criterion for excellence in realized and representational metaphor?
- Which statement correctly distinguishes technical validity from rhetorical excellence?
- What is the particular focus when evaluating representational metaphor?
- What does the condition that resemblance extend to both sides mean?
- Why must the figure fulfill its assigned rhetorical purpose?
- What is the target of the requirement that simile not be sensed in the wording?
- What is the best distinction between “Zayd is a lion” and “Zayd is like a lion”?
- What does “clear in itself” mean here?
- How can general convention support an intelligible metaphor?
- How should a metaphor understood through specialized convention be evaluated?
- What defect is to be avoided when a metaphor must not become a riddle?
- Why would “I saw a lion” be weak if intended solely for a person with bad breath?
- How do the ground of resemblance and the contextual clue differ?
- What is the composite resemblance when the hundred-camels scene is applied to people?
- What is the figure when the entire camel scene is borrowed to describe people?
- How does “People are like a hundred camels” differ from borrowing the camel scene directly?
- Why can not every valid simile become a strong metaphor?
- Which statement best describes productive novelty in metaphor?
- What kind of unity is meant when resemblance becomes so strong the two seem united?
- What is the central resemblance when light represents knowledge?
- How does “light arose in my heart” work in a context of understanding?
- What feature is explicit in “knowledge is like light”?
- What makes “I fell into darkness” apt for uncertainty and confusion?
- What is the first requirement for excellence in implicit metaphor?
- According to the lesson, the beauty of imaginative metaphor depends on what?
- What makes the imagined claws in “claws of death” effective?
- What follows if an imaginative feature is striking but its hidden comparison is unsuitable?
- What is the most suitable order for testing metaphorical excellence?
- If a resemblance is not immediately obvious but clear through the audience’s specialized terminology, what follows?
- Which statement best separates the category of metaphor from its quality?
- How are the standards of excellence for implicit and imaginative metaphor related?
- The only requirement for metaphorical excellence is that a nonliteral word can be identified.
- A resemblance can be clear through common convention or specialist terminology.
- “Zayd is like a lion” makes exactly the same claimed identification as “Zayd is a lion.”
- Representational metaphor should be evaluated through the fitness of the entire scene.
- The quality of imaginative metaphor is independent of implicit metaphor and rests solely on strangeness.
- A metaphor can retain an underlying mental resemblance even when the wording does not state a simile.