So I’m reading the introduction to John Donne in the anthology I’m recording, and I come across the terms tenor and vehicle in the context of metaphor. How did I not know that there were terms for the parts of a metaphor?
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So I’m reading the introduction to John Donne in the anthology I’m recording, and I come across the terms tenor and vehicle in the context of metaphor. How did I not know that there were terms for the parts of a metaphor?