Lakoff and Johnson's Conceptual Metaphors in Fiction
Every novel establishes a subconscious metaphorical ecosystem. When an author introduces aquatic imagery in Act One, switches to architectural metaphors in Act Two, and concludes with astronomical metaphors in Act Three, the prose suffers from symbolic drift.
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