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megametaphor: a standalone construct

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Stylistics

a metaphor sustained beneath a whole text, surfacing in scattered local expressions that together build one underlying figurative frame.

In stylistics, megametaphor refers to a metaphor sustained beneath a whole text, surfacing in scattered local expressions that together build one underlying figurative frame. This meaning comes from Werth (1994) in Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics.[1]

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frame3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs metaphor3 fields · 3 citationsinvariant · one construct, three systems text4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four fields

References

Werth, P. (1994). Extended Metaphor: a Text-World Account. Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics, 3(2), 79-103. https://doi.org/10.1177/096394709400300201

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