@JulieFromCinci

What does "protean metaphor" mean?

6:45PM Sun, April 01 2012

@santonicus Lubec

One that changes meaning, maybe? Proteus was a shapeshifting guy.

7:04PM Sun, April 01 2012

@JulieFromCinci

Over my head. How does a metaphor change shape? #stumped

7:09PM Sun, April 01 2012

@WaitWhuuut The Pacific Northwest.

typically a versatile metaphor

7:10PM Sun, April 01 2012

@JulieFromCinci

How is a metaphor versatile? Like time is money fits all situations?

7:13PM Sun, April 01 2012

@WaitWhuuut The Pacific Northwest.

a real life one is "the 1%" in occupy Wall Street rhetoric.

7:21PM Sun, April 01 2012

@santonicus Lubec

Maybe it's Proteus as a metaphor.

7:22PM Sun, April 01 2012

@santonicus Lubec

http://t.co/t4auYTZj

7:23PM Sun, April 01 2012

@santonicus Lubec

. . . similar to that of a persuasive argument."

7:28PM Sun, April 01 2012

@JulieFromCinci

I am reading Dead Souls and it says "protean metaphor" in a review on the cover.

8:56PM Sun, April 01 2012

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What does "protean metaphor" mean?

One that changes meaning, maybe? Proteus was a shapeshifting guy.

Over my head. How does a metaphor change shape? #stumped

typically a versatile metaphor

How is a metaphor versatile? Like time is money fits all situations?

a real life one is "the 1%" in occupy Wall Street rhetoric.

Maybe it's Proteus as a metaphor.

http://t.co/t4auYTZj

. . . similar to that of a persuasive argument."

I am reading Dead Souls and it says "protean metaphor" in a review on the cover.

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What does "protean metaphor" mean?

One that changes meaning, maybe? Proteus was a shapeshifting guy.

Over my head. How does a metaphor change shape? #stumped

typically a versatile metaphor

How is a metaphor versatile? Like time is money fits all situations?

a real life one is "the 1%" in occupy Wall Street rhetoric.

Maybe it's Proteus as a metaphor.

http://t.co/t4auYTZj

. . . similar to that of a persuasive argument."

I am reading Dead Souls and it says "protean metaphor" in a review on the cover.

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