ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of the book. The book develops detailed cognitive accounts of three figurative forms that have been neglected in previous analyses of literature: similes, puns, and counterfactuals. It brings into conversation cognitive approaches to literature, language, and narrative that often circulate, unshared, within different cognitive fields. The book shows that cognitive accounts of figurative forms can inspire illuminating textual readings. It focuses on a particular type of discourse: literary narrative. And even within the scope of literary narrative, full readings were further limited to the form of the short story. The book mentions the very creative use of similes by poet Harryette Mullen in her poem "Wipe That Simile Off Your Aphasia". It also explores the complexity of moot scenarios used as a component of character development in the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
