The discussion establishes an important principle: a single rhetorical example may receive different technical labels because the location of analysis differs. One author identifies transferred language as primary; another emphasizes imaginative attribution of a source-specific feature.
A satisfactory answer must therefore explain not merely “this is an imaginative metaphor” or “this is explicit metaphor,” but also which theory applies the term and why.
The following discussion continues the consequences of these analyses before moving to conditions of effective metaphor.