So that the same word may obviously be at once strange and ordinary, though not in reference to the same people. a noun must always be either (1) the ordinary word for the thing, or (2) a strange word, or (3) a metaphor, or (4) an ornamental word, or (5) a coined word, or (6) a word lengthened out, or (7) curtailed, or (8) altered in form.īy the ordinary word I mean that in general use in a country and by a strange (foreign?) word, one in use elsewhere. Memorable insights that poets like Homer can create through well-chosenįrom The Poetics, translated by Ingram Bywater: Makes learning pleasant, but here he is speaking of the kind of Of some interest that in the Rhetoric he says that metaphor Posterior Analytics, metaphor is nowhere to be seen. When he is addressing knowledge or science in the strict sense, as in Is about excellence in poetic works, with an emphasis on tragedy,Īnd The Rhetoric, which is about the composition of persuasive speeches. Aristotle on Metaphor, Excerpts from Poetics and Rhetoric Aristotle on MetaphorĪristotle discusses metaphor primarily in two works: The Poetics, which
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