Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 11 AIL 1025 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Neckcloth Like a Stubborn Fact
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The idea
His neckcloth is trained to take him by the throat with an unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact, as it was. The simile compares a thing to the abstraction the man worships, then the aside as it was asserts the comparison is literal. The joke is compressed into three words.
In practice
The simile is then called literal.
Where people slip
Three words carry the joke.
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