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>Friends,
>Has anyone looked into the cognitive difference
>between a metaphor and a simile? I just read a literary
>scholar's statement that a metaphor was just an
>abbreviated simile, abbreviated in that it lacks an
>explicit comparator, that otherwise the two are the
>same. However, my gut feeling is that they are quite
>different, that generally a simile invites a more
>superficial comparison than a metaphor, that generally
>a metaphor provokes a more profound search for
>relevance than a simile. But I can't recall this issue
>being discussed.
>Best, --David
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