👉 In linguistics and cognitive science, a prefigurement is a type of metaphor used to create an analogy between two different concepts. It involves the use of some aspect or feature of one concept that is not directly related to another concept in order to make it seem more significant or meaningful. For example, if you have two concepts: "a book" and "a library," and you want to compare them using a prefigurement, you can say something like: "The library is the place where
