Supermetaphor
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Supermetaphor is a noun meaning A grounding fact; a correspondance between the underlying truth and our ideas and constructions based on that truth.
Meaning
A grounding fact; a correspondance between the underlying truth and our ideas and constructions based on that truth.
More Meanings
- An overarching metaphor; a metaphor that encompasses several sub-metaphors.
- A metaphor that is particularly widespread or dominant.
- A metaphor about metaphors.
Example Sentences
In this way he promotes landscape into a supermetaphor, in order to expose a general tendency towards equalization.
This is a case of supermetaphor called metalepsis by Quintilian and transumptio by Geoffrey of Vinsauf. The images echo one another.
The third chapter focuses on the theme of alcohol, which is a sort of "supermetaphor" of poetic distillation, encompassing all the other metaphors.
Combining the stability of architecture, the fluidity of water, and the vitality of plant life, the root is a kind of supermetaphor that subsumes the others.
Word Forms
- supermetaphors
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include metaproposition, metaphor, metaprinciple, metonym, antimetabole, analogy.
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