Analogies are used in aid of Conviction: Metaphors, as means of Illustration.

Diphthongs were allowed as options in many words, often rendering them identical to the Landsmål forms but deviating from upper-middle-class speech: ben > bein ‘bone, leg’ (Landsmål: bein), løv > lauv ‘leaf’ (Landsmål: lauv). In Riksmål with optional forms, many other frequently-used words were also altered from forms which reflected upper-middle-class speech to those which were identical with Landsmål:[…]

With this view, they made a Guy Faux, or dummy figure of a boy, dressed in coat and cap; such as might in a poor light be mistaken for a living figure.

I think I’m over my limit for calories for today.