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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
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Hamlet help metaphor or....

"Your biat of falsehood takes this carp of truth"

Would this be considered a double metaphor or just a single normal metaphor?
  

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Hi, "Your biat of falsehood takes this carp of truth" First of all, I spent a while wondering what a 'biat' was, before I realized you meant to type 'bait'. Would this be considered a double metaphor or just a single normal metaphor? I'd consider it a single metaphor because there is a unity, between bait and carp, as well as between falsehood and truth.

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  • Hi, "Your biat of falsehood takes this carp of truth" First of all, I spent a while wondering what a 'biat' was, before I realized you meant to type 'bait'.
  • Would this be considered a double metaphor or just a single normal metaphor?
  • I'd consider it a single metaphor because there is a unity, between bait and carp, as well as between falsehood and truth.
  • The whole sentence has a single meaning and invokes a single image, that of fishing.
  • You won't catch many carp if you use a 'biat'.
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Hi,

"Your biat of falsehood takes this carp of truth"

First of all, I spent a while wondering what a 'biat' was, before I realized you meant to type 'bait'.

Would this be considered a double metaphor or just a single normal metaphor?

I'd consider it a single metaphor because there is a unity, between bai
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