Question
Which one of the following statements by Roman Jacobson is true about metaphor and metonymy?
The correct answer is
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.
Was this answer helpful?
Important Questions from Literature
W. H. Auden belonged to the:
Robert Browning's poetry is:
Among T. S. Eliot's works, the character of Tiresias appears in
Charles Lamb wrote under the pseudonym
Munoo is the central character in Mulk Raj Anand's novel
Need Expert Advice?
