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Definition of Imaginative comparison
1. Noun. The kind of mental comparison that is expressed in similes or metaphors or allegories.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imaginative Comparison
Literary usage of Imaginative comparison
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Grammar of Esperanto, the International Language: With Graded by Ivy Kellerman Reed (1910)
"The three kinds of conditional sentences, together with the moods and tenses used
in them, may be tabulated as follows: CLAUSES OF imaginative comparison. ..."
2. Rhetoric in Practice by Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Samuel Swayze Seward (1906)
"Of formal figures of speech, one of the most important is the simile, or imaginative
comparison. "Quick as a cat, he was up the ladder and into the burning ..."
3. The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick (1877)
"The question then arises, What ground have we for believing this imaginative
comparison accurate ? Is the mind ever in such a state as to be a perfectly ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"Men's ideas of happiness are formed from imaginative comparison with each other:
they complain, and yet they will not (generally) change ..."
5. Tropes and Figures in Anglo-Saxon Prose by James Waddell Tupper (1897)
"... which are mentioned and the comparison directly stated; a poetic or imaginative
comparison; also a verbal expression or embodiment of such a comparison. ..."
6. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, Sir W Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1904)
"extremely original and imaginative comparison of a man possessed with sin to a
body that is dead, Paul rises to a height of exaltation for which only the ..."
7. This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics by W. Jackquelyne Klous, Robert I. Tilling (1996)
"There are several important differences, however: this imaginative comparison
ignores the fact that electric ..."
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