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Which one of the following statements by Roman Jacobson is true about metaphor and metonymy?
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Metaphor is alien to the similarity disorder and metonymy to the continuity disorder
Jakobson associates metaphor with selection based on similarity and metonymy with combination based on contiguity. Similarity disorder impairs metaphorical substitution; contiguity disorder impairs metonymic combination.
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