User:B.Sirota/sandbox/Space1

The Philosophy of Rhetoric (1937) by rhetorician I. A. Richards describes a metaphor as having two parts, the tenor and the vehicle. The 'tenor' is the subject to which attributes are ascribed, the 'vehicle' is the object from which attributes are borrowed. In the example from Shakespeare, "the world" is the subject being 'described' with the attributes of "a stage" in the theatre: "the world" is the tenor, and "a stage" is the vehicle; "men and women" is the secondary tenor, and "players" is the secondary vehicle.