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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Help me find a word: "in vivo" enactment of lit #141609 04/01/2005 4:08 PM Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 2 HNK stranger HNK stranger Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 2 I want a word that describes the "in real life" enactment of a metaphor/story/situation that occurs in a piece of literature. Example: Robert Frost's famous "two roads diverged." I want to construct a sentence that says, "Quite a XXX of the archetypal two roads." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Help me find a word: "in vivo" enactment of lit #141610 04/01/2005 4:29 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 Hi and welcome HNK. Does not the simple form do it? "Quite an example of the archetypal two roads." - or exemplum if you want to be fancy and Latinate ;) If this bus doesn't go where you want, there'll be another few along shortly. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Help me find a word: "in vivo" enactment of li #141611 04/01/2005 4:54 PM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA TheFallibleFiend veteran TheFallibleFiend veteran Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA exemplar instantiation instance In slightly different circumstances, one might use specimen implementation case in point k Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Help me find a word: "in vivo" enactment of lit #141612 04/01/2005 5:06 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York "Quite a life-imitating-art of the archetypal two roads." This isn't a serious submission, of course, but it might spark some more ideas. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Help me find a word: "in vivo" enactment of lit #141613 04/01/2005 5:13 PM Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 500 Northern Ontario, Canada Elizabeth Creith addict Elizabeth Creith addict Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 500 Northern Ontario, Canada How about "embodiment"? Or "incarnation"? And welcome to the world of wordies, HNK. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Help me find a word: "in vivo" enactment of lit #141614 04/01/2005 5:35 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City You are speaking, I take it, in this example, of a decision with life altering and irretrievable consequences and not of a fork in the road. I wonder why you would want such a word at all -- 'example,' 'instantiation,' etc., when the power of the metaphor, if it is worth its salt, and if it has been so established as the archtypal, best, or canonical expression that it is itself the best term. In that case, the metaphor weakened, in my mind, by the construction of your sentence, which only references, but does not employ, it. That construction would, however, function very well, if it were used in elision: the notion of example being suggested, but not actually stated. As a "grammatical" question, however, I think the question is interesting whether there a specific term for this. And I have no idea the answer. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Help me find a word: "in vivo" enactment of lit #141615 04/01/2005 5:38 PM Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 2 HNK stranger HNK stranger Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 2 Hmmmm, I was hoping there was a word I didn't know of that encapsulated the precise "literature to life" definition. That would be a fabulous word! Something more sexy and classic (possibly french?) sounding than "lit-to-life." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Help me find a word: "in vivo" enactment of lit #141616 04/06/2005 2:46 AM Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 3 Detroit, Michigan numberonealcove stranger numberonealcove stranger Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 3 Detroit, Michigan The term does not convey the full range of meaning but how about "tableau vivant," meaning a representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate postures, and remaining silent and motionless. Think of Robert Altman's tableau vivant of da Vinci's Last Supper in the 1970 film adaptation of MASH. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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