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Wholegrain Posted 18 years ago
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whose type is the Mississippi itself
"Here reigned the dashing and all-fusing spirit of the West, whose type is the Mississippi itself, which, uniting the streams of the most distant and opposite zones, pours them along, helter-skelter, in one cosmopolitan and confident tide."
Is the author using a metonymy when he says "whose type is the Mississippi itself" as opposed to "whose type is that of the Mississippi"?
Is the author using a metonymy when he says "whose type is the Mississippi itself" as opposed to "whose type is that of the Mississippi"?
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Hi, This is more of a literature question, don't you think?
- Hi, This is more of a literature question, don't you think?
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Don't you think it sounds a bit odd?
It's like saying: "whose type is the America itself".
It's like saying: "whose type is the America itself".
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