Simile. The matrix of distinctive features. Types of simile

Similie- is a trope which draws an imaginative comparison btw the explicit T and explicit V for grounding one or more points of resemblance TC)tritium comparison= ground for comparison) and comparison is expressed by a special connective.

S.G. Darian offers the following matrix of distinctive features of simile:

1.T and V are unlike things

2. T. and V have different referents

3. There is no direct or simple comparison of obvious similarities or likeness

4. T and V share some semantic features(TC)

5. Simile doesn`t involve a total transfer of features

6. The simile contains a connective C

7. The two parts of a simile can be fitted into the paradigm T is like V

8. The connective C affirms that the relationship is an imaginary one, an appearance, a resemblance, rather than reality.

9. V usually refers to a general rather than specific item (a museum not the museum)

V-explicit

T-explicit

Ground-explicit or implicit (John works like a horse)

Connectives: like, V+like, as...as, look like etc.

TC cb stated by:

-verb(his nose curved like a switchback, with a knob at the end)

-noun(I took on the project with the enthusiasm of a child going to his first haircut)

-adv (Each of the lines stands sturdily like a tree)

-adj (Jim stopped inside the door as immovable as a setter at the scent of quail)

D. U. Ashurova classifies similes into four groups depending on the nature of TC:

- of quality(expr by adj): A woman moved is like fountain troubled: muddy, ill-seeming, bereft of beauty.

-of action(expr by verbs): The clerks in the office jumped about like sailors during a storm.

-of relation: Her anger dispersed before his humour like foam before a breeze.

-of analogy: As on the fingers of throned queen The basest jewel will be well esteemed, So are those errors that in thee are seen To truths translated and for true things deemed.

Structurally:

-simple: the V is expressed briefly and directly without any enlargement (I wandered lonely as a cloud)

-sustained: is a similie in which likeness is expressed and then developed into a micro-picture (My heart is like an apple tree whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit)