Quasi-identity
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is a recently defined
figure of speech, intermediary between metaphor (metonymy)
and simile, with the structure ‘Tenor is Vehicle’. For example:
she is a real angel; your brother is an ass.
There are metaphoric quasi-identities: the flower is a sigh of
color, suspiration of purple, sibilation of saffron [
Aiken
]; We are
those ribless polyps / that nature insures / Against thought by
routines, against triumph by tolerance [
Gunn
].
There are also metonymic quasi-identities: You are virtue
incarnate!; She is all youth, / All beauty, all delight, / All that a
boyhood loves and manhood needs [
Masefield
]; She was all
angles and bones [
Lee
].
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