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French literature

G ard Genette had declared metonymy to be at the heart of metaphor. For Genette, metaphors are motivated by semantic or even referential relations between the particular tenor and the vehicle this tenor attracts. In Genette's case a specific church tower is the tenor, whereas the cornfields surrounding the tower, the vehicle, call into being the metaphor of ears of corn to describe the surface structure of the tower's roof'

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