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Jun 21, 2022 · Mixed Metaphors Explained: 8 Examples of Mixed Metaphors. A well-crafted metaphor uses consistent imagery ("hitting the nail on the head”); when you start mixing imagery ("hitting the nail on the nose"), you can create a type of malapropism known as a mixed metaphor.
Jun 6, 2019 · Updated on June 06, 2019. A mixed metaphor is a succession of incongruous or ludicrous comparisons. Also known—playfully—as a mixaphor. Although many style guides condemn the use of mixed metaphors, in practice most of the objectionable combinations (as in the examples below) are actually clichés or dead metaphors.
- Richard Nordquist
The speaker uses a mixed metaphor to set out the evening sky. The first metaphor compares the evening sky to something that is “spread out.”. It describes a flat and expansive surface. The second metaphor compares the evening sky to a patient who has been anesthetized (etherized)and is lying on a table likely in preparation for surgery ...
Jan 1, 2010 · The metaphors satisfy the two basic conditions for mixed metaphor: (1) they occur in textual adjacency, i.e. within a single metaphor cluster, and (2) they do not (for the most part) share any imagistic ontology or any direct inferential entailments between them. Mixed metaphors like these have traditionally posed a challenge to theorists.
- Michael Kimmel
- 2010
May 30, 2019 · Examples of Mixed Metaphors. "So now what we are dealing with is the rubber meeting the road, and instead of biting the bullet on these issues, we just want to punt." " [T]he bill is mostly a stew of spending on existing programs, whatever their warts may be." "A friend of mine, talking about the Democratic presidential candidates, tossed out a ...
- Richard Nordquist
7. Conclusion and outlook Mixed metaphors are frequent and they seem, in most cases, unproblematic to deal with when they complement each other and enrich the meaning of a text passage. Studying mixed metaphors casts an interesting light on the relation between metaphor and more inclusive and structurally complex discourse units like arguments.
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Jan 31, 2010 · An interesting finding regarding mixed metaphor is that all the mixed metaphors (regarding the data of governors and mayors), in this book, consist of the following pairs: Journey and War, Journey ...
