He is a walking encyclopedia figure of speech
Answers
Answer:
metaphor is the figure of speech
Answer:
A very knowledgeable person, as in Ask Rob—he's a walking encyclopedia of military history. A similar expression, a walking dictionary, was used by George Chapman in his poem “Tears of Peace” (c. 1600).
Explanation:
A person who has a very large and detailed knowledge of a diverse array of facts and who can recite them when asked.
An extremely knowledgeable individual. The term likens a person to a huge amalgamation of learning. One of the earliest versions of this cliché occurred in the poem “Tears of Peace” by George Chapman (ca. 1559–1634): “And let a scholar all Earth’s volumes carry, He will be but a walking dictionary.” In Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (1869) Meg speaks admiringly of a man she considers “a walking encyclopedia.”
Some people, to note, may be classified as a "walking encyclopedia", e.g. memory savant Kim Peek, able to recall the exact contents of some 13,000 books, but not necessarily classified as a genius, e.g. Peek was classified as an idiot savant. The following quote may give some feel to this model:
“Nineteenth-century man is a walking encyclopedia, stuffed with useless knowledge.”
— Nietzsche (c.1878) (Ѻ)
American cognitive science philosopher Daniel Dennett’s 2001 conception of the processing system of a walking encyclopedia type of person, shown adjacent, gives insight into the notion that a genius may devote more time developing the "belief fixation", "planning", and possibly action (e.g. inventive genius, military genius, scientific genius, etc.) than as compared to the pure encyclopedia genius (e.g. trivia genius) who may devote more time to pure memory of all knowledge generally, allocating equal amounts of memory energy to each factoid, without thought to the relative importance of each bit of knowledge, in respect to analysis, belief, planning, and action.
A related term is encyclopedist, referring to one who writes encyclopedias. One may, for example, be both a walking encyclopedia and an encyclopedist, though not always. [1]
Libb Thims (walking encyclopedia)
American Libb Thims depicted as a "walking encyclopedia" epitaph assigned to him by several people, including Milivoje Kostic (2013).
Among American Presidents, to go through an example, is American political philosopher Thomas Jefferson, with his 180 IQ, 6,487 book personal library, and "last persons to know everything" and polymath-polyglot status, has often been characterized as a walking encyclopedia:
“Mr. Jefferson was, himself, a living and walking encyclopedia.”
— William Wirt (1833) (Ѻ)
Although he, himself, was not an encyclopedist per se, i.e. he did not actually write any form of exhaustive encyclopedia on any given subject, he did frequently meet up with other actual encyclopedists at the famous Café Procope—meeting ground to Voltaire (IQ=195) and Denis Diderot (IQ=165), the latter maker of the first modern encyclopedia (see: epicenter genius) — those including: Benjamin Franklin, and John Paul Jones.
Thims | Walking encyclopedia
An example of someone who is often described as a "walking encyclopedia" and who has written an encyclopedia (Hmolpedia) is American electrochemical engineer Libb Thims:
“Libb Thims is [walking] encyclopedia of human thermodynamics.”
— Milivoje Kostic (2013), introduction to Libb Thims during his April NIU lecture
A related term that has made its way into the fiction world as of late is “walking Wikipedia”; though an actual non-fiction person associated with this term seems to be lacking. (Ѻ).
https://brainly.in/question/19012307
#SPJ3