(07-02-2019, 06:28 AM)robkelk Wrote: Don't have time to look up a trope. What's the trope for taking a metaphor literally? (Here's a new example for that trope.)
Literal-Minded seems to be what you want.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....