Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 7 AIL 0605 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Two Sides of a Comparison
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The idea
The subject being illuminated and the thing brought in to illuminate it need separate names. The standard pair is tenor for the subject and vehicle for the borrowed image. The glossary defines neither, so these are the standard senses, and the distinction makes effect questions answerable.
In practice
Tenor is the subject, vehicle the image.
Where people slip
Neither term is in the glossary.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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