Structure

The Philosophy of Rhetoric (1936), by I. A. Richards describes a allegory as accepting two parts: the tenor and the vehicle. The tenor is the accountable to which attributes are ascribed. The car is the article whose attributes are borrowed. In the antecedent example, "the world" is compared to a stage, anecdotic it with the attributes of “the stage”; "the world" is the tenor, and "a stage" is the vehicle; "men and women" is a accessory tenor, "players" is the accessory vehicle.

Other writers apply the accepted agreement arena and amount to denote tenor and the vehicle. In cerebral linguistics, the agreement ambition and antecedent are acclimated respectively.