Why are implicit and imaginative metaphor treated as two aspects here?
Implicit and Imaginative Metaphor: Definitions, Core Examples, and Analysis
- Implicit metaphor omits only a particle while imaginative metaphor omits only the shared feature
- Implicit metaphor openly names the source and imaginative metaphor suppresses it
- Both are different senses of the same isolated word
- One conceals the simile; the other ascribes a source attribute