A dead one is one which has been used so long and is now so common that the discrepancy between vehicle and tenor is no longer one of which we are aware.
A dead one is one which has been used so long and is now so common that the discrepancy between vehicle and tenor is no longer one of which we are aware. According to I.A. Richards, the tenor is the subject to which it is applied, and the vehicle is the term itself. For ten points, name this literary term which, when two or more diverse vehicles are combined, sometimes ludicrously, is referred to as "mixed."
A dead one is one which has been used so long and is now so common that the discrepancy between vehicle and tenor is no longer one of which we are aware.
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