In traditional linguistics,metaphor is regarded as a rhetoric form,a method of modifying language,therefore it is the object of study in rhetoric,literature,and stylistics.

• 从传统的语言学角度来看,隐喻是语言形式上的修辞,是语言装饰的手段,因而隐喻只是修辞学、文学和文体学研究的对象;