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Metaphor is a rhetorical figures that the reader or listener tries to understand through choosing the terms. Thus, the selection of the words helps to appreciate a good figure that needs a colorful consideration. Also, metaphor is a comparison that is implicit between two different phenomena by using the vocabularies figurative. I. A. Richards says that a metaphor has two parts, namely, tenor and vehicle. Tenor is the complete sense while the vehicle is the tool when he give us his view as : “…..the vehicle is not normally a mere embellishment of a tenor which is otherwise unchanged by it, but ….vehicle and tenor in the cooperation give a meaning of a more varied power than can be ascribed to either.”

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