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• Metaphor
• Paradox
• Simile
• Chinese language -- Figures of speech
• French language -- Figures of speech
• Greek language -- Figures of speech
• Latin language -- Figures of speech

• Culinary Linguistics: The Chef's Special (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2013), ed. by Cornelia Gerhardt, Maximiliane Frobenius, and Susanne Hucklenbroich-Ley (PDF at John Benjamins e-Platform)
• More on Oxymoron, by Patrick Hughes (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, c2024), by Martin Paul Eve (PDF with commentary in the UK)
• The Semantics of Metaphor (originally published 1977; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Samuel R. Levin (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• A Manual of Chinese Metaphor: Being a Selection of Typical Chinese Metaphors, with Explanatory Notes and Indices (Shanghai: Statistical Dept. of the Inspectorate General, 1920), by C. A. S. Williams
  • page images in Hong Kong
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Structural Arithmetic Metaphor in the Oxford "Roland" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1972), by Eleanor Webster Bulatkin (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Notes on Vermin (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2025), by Caroline Hovanec (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The Metaphoric Structure of Paradise Lost (originally published 1962; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Jackson I. Cope (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Paradox of Self-Amendment: A Study of Law, Logic, Omnipotence, and Change (c1990), by Peter Suber (PDF at Harvard)

• Adventures in Paradox: Don Quixote and the Western Tradition (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001), by Charles D. Presberg (PDF at PSU)
• Paradoxism's Main Roots, by Florin Vasiliu, trans. by Stefan Benea (PDF at UNM)
• Paradoxism and Postmodernism in Florentin Smarandache's Work, by Ion Soare (PDF at UNM)

• The Artistry of the Homeric Simile (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Library and Dartmouth College Press; Published by University Press of New England, c2009), by William C. Scott
  • multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
• The Oral Nature of the Homeric Simile (Leiden: Brill, 1974), by William C. Scott (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• A Manual of Chinese Metaphor: Being a Selection of Typical Chinese Metaphors, with Explanatory Notes and Indices (Shanghai: Statistical Dept. of the Inspectorate General, 1920), by C. A. S. Williams
  • page images in Hong Kong
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Word and Figure: The Language of Nineteenth-Century French Poetry (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1987), by Carol de Dobay Rifelj (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Artistry of the Homeric Simile (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Library and Dartmouth College Press; Published by University Press of New England, c2009), by William C. Scott
  • multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
• The Oral Nature of the Homeric Simile (Leiden: Brill, 1974), by William C. Scott (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• The Style of Pope St. Leo the Great (dissertation; Catholic University of America Press Patristic Studies v59; 1939), by William J. Halliwell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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