Editing Metaphor (section)

===Subtypes===

A [[dead metaphor]] is a metaphor in which the sense of a transferred image has become absent. The phrases "to grasp a concept" and "to gather what you've understood" use physical action as a metaphor for understanding. The audience does not need to visualize the action; dead metaphors normally go unnoticed. Some distinguish between a dead metaphor and a [[cliché]]. Others use "dead metaphor" to denote both.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://mh.bmj.com/content/26/2/97 |title=Working with the metaphor of life and death |year=2000 |doi=10.1136/mh.26.2.97 |pmid=23670145 |access-date=1 February 2019 |archive-date=2 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190202095633/https://mh.bmj.com/content/26/2/97 |url-status=live |last1=Barker |first1=P. |journal=Medical Humanities |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=97–102 |s2cid=25309973 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

A mixed metaphor is a metaphor that leaps from one identification to a second inconsistent with the first, e.g.:
{{blockquote|I smell a rat [...] but I'll nip him in the bud"|source=Irish politician [[Boyle Roche]]}}
This form is often used as a parody of metaphor itself:
{{blockquote|If we can hit that bull's-eye then the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... [[Checkmate]].|''[[Futurama]]'' character [[Zapp Brannigan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/character/ch0013045/quotes|title=Zapp Brannigan (Character)|work=IMDb|access-date=21 September 2014}}</ref>}}

An extended metaphor, or conceit, sets up a principal subject with several subsidiary subjects or comparisons. In the above quote from ''As You Like It'', the world is first described as a stage and then the subsidiary subjects men and women are further described in the same context.

An implicit metaphor has no specified tenor, although the vehicle is present. [[M. H. Abrams]] offers the following as an example of an implicit metaphor: "That reed was too frail to survive the storm of its sorrows". The reed is the vehicle for the implicit tenor, someone's death, and the storm is the vehicle for the person's sorrows.<ref>M. H. Abrams and Geoffrey Galt Harpham, A Glossary of Literary Terms, 11th ed. (Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning, 2015), 134.</ref>

Metaphor can serve as a device for persuading an audience of the user's argument or thesis, the so-called rhetorical metaphor.