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isabel+
10-07-2009, 09:14 AM
Can someone tell me which stylistic/rhetorical device this is:

- Are there giants in your 'modern' story?
- Yes, but only one.
- That's as bad as twenty. You should carry them back some 700 or 800 years out of harm's way, both of critics and other people!

Sounds like a kind of metafictional metaphor (?) but I've never heard of such a thing... please help!