Not as Clear as Day: On Irony, Humor, and Poeticity in the Closed Simile

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Metaphor and Symbol 34 (3):185-196 (2019)
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ABSTRACTThis paper takes up the much-neglected figure of the closed simile, a simile in which the ground is explicitly stated, as in “the dress is as black as coal.” In the typical case, which we c...

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