"What are Vehicles and Tenors?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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[@Khatoon170]

Vehicles and tenors is thing being described. Vehicle is figurative language you use to describe it . These terms are taken from famous rhetorician I A richards who wrote about these structures of metaphors way back in 1936 . Tenor and vehicle ground is things tenor and vehicle have in common. In literature vehicle is components of metaphor, with tenor referring to concept , object , person meant , and vehicle being image that Carries weight of comparison. For example tenor and vehicle in Macbeth play tenor Macbeth ambition to be king and vehicle is spur . Ground is that Shakespeare compares Macbeth desire to be king riding horse . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

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Figures are speech are usually very confusing for the learners, but lucid and clear way of teaching makes it so easy to understand and to remember.You describe in a nutshell what takes hours to teach and to explain .Amazing !

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[@kenonerboy]

forgive if I sound like a fool, but I don't quite get what the 2nd "it" is referring to...

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Not at all, kenonerboy! That ambiguity is part of what makes the song so interesting--it keeps us guessing. What does everyone else think?

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[@MaryFroelich]

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[@hemalakshmi4250]

Superb sir 👌 Correct me if I'm wrong, The chilli sauce makes me cry Here Tenor is its so spicy And Vehicle is cry Is this correct?

[@SWLF]

Interesting, hemalakshmi. Because chili sauce can literally make people cry, we'd say this might not be the best kind of figurative language, as there might be some confusion on whether or not you were being literal or figurative. If we said something like "This chili sauce burns like the fire of the sun," we're moving more into the realm of the figurative. In that case, the vehicle would be "the fire of the sun" and the tenor would be the chili sauce. Hope that helps! And thanks so much for all of your contributions!

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[@lukeroberts201]

It make sense studio album and book 📕 are same because they both have numbers and song title and studio album title is a book 📕 title and lyrics equals details.

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Do you guys agreed 👍 👍 that studio album 💿 are a book 📕 📖?@@SWLF

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Example I don’t say track 1 like a railroad track I say chapter 1 and lyrics are details which means facts what is true about the songwriter.@@SWLF

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This is super helpfullllll I’m not even in this school

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[@whatabouttheearth]

"hit me up" means contact, "hit me" means other thingS

[@firkinfright5168]

So I'm watching Risky Business' Porsche 928 slide into a lake. Is Joel the Tenor there, the Porsche the Vehicle, him trying to stop it sliding of the hill the Tension and it going under water the Ground? This as a visual representation of Lana who likes to keep their relation on the surface and walks off after Joel being to nosey while pointing out she knows his secret that he's driving his dad's car and she's only going to play along if she is the one who is in control. The Vehicle being a representation of the prosperity he has (eg. fakes) and it going under that he's overwhelmed by the feelings rising to the surface as Lana walks out of him?

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Interesting question, Firkin. It has been ages since we've seen this movie. What does everyone else think?

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