| Figure Name | xyz |
| Source | Aristotle; Poetics 1457b; Rhetoric 1407a |
| Earliest Source | Mark Turner (Reading Minds) |
| Synonyms | proportional metaphor |
| Etymology | |
| Type | Scheme |
| Linguistic Domain |
Syntactic |
| Definition |
An expression that takes the form "X is the Y of Z" |
| Example |
(love of) Money is the root of all evil; Brevity is the soul of wit; Vanity is the quicksand of reason |
| Kind Of | Series Similarity |
| Part Of | |
| Related Figures | metaphor, simile |
| Notes | |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Last Editor | Nike Abbott |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Editorial Notes | I'm not sure where the examples originally appeared, but the correct adage is "the love of money is the root of all evil." I added the correction in brackets. - nike |
| Reviewed | No |