MIXED METAPHOR, ITS DEFINITION AND EXAMPLES IN THE MATERIALS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Keywords:
Phrases, mixed metaphor, incompatible metaphor, cognition, poetry, mixaphor.Abstract
The article investigates mixed metaphor and its effect to the user’s writing. The article is an attempt to identify the definition of the mixed metaphor in English materials. It is a highly timely contribution that fills a gap between the pre-theoretical notion of ‘mixed metaphors’, largely known to the (English-speaking) public as something to be avoided as it reflects poor style or even sloppy thinking, and scholarly research on metaphor, where the topic has received little attention: “people’s cognitive flexibility to think of abstract concepts in a myriad of metaphorical ways”
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