I know the difference. You write literal.

  >>> I think you’re being more literal maybe?

  >> Checkhov's rifle is a foreshadowing device

I don’t know what to say. I explained my position and you find it lacking. I make no accusations of lack of understanding, I merely lay out my reason for all to critique and correct, and so you may understand my thought process.

Do you think that metaphors can be used too literally? All models are wrong, and some are useful. Let’s not let the perfect allusion, that I didn’t make, be the enemy of the good comparison, that I didn’t (in your view), make. I’m fine discussing my views, but I can’t change what I said originally.

No one is finding fault with you in this thread, least of all me. If you persist in finding fault where I readily admit fault through deliberation, I might be led to believe perhaps you protest too much?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lady_doth_protest_too_much...