metaphor

These two metaphors are mismached.

In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.

Children at a young age produce more enactive metaphors and as they grow older more perceptual metaphors are produced.

The translation of metaphors, personification and Litotes etc.

it is moot whether this phrase should be treated as metaphor or not.

Check for similes, metaphors, metonymy and synecdoche.

'I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression,' said Mark, who was fond of theatrical metaphors.

the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a metaphor for an industry that was teetering.

Using metaphor, we say that computers have senses and a memory.

In the sermon the preacher hereby notifies the congregation that it is dead and buried –an ex-people.This is not a metaphor, this is our reality coram Deo.

The metaphor representing the Yin and Yang or the first male and female connection - the right and left eyes of Horus is the Vesica Pisces becoming the symbol for the First Light.

Another cybernetician, Gerald Weinberg, supplies a fine metaphor for requisite complexity in his book On the Design of Stable Systems.

that this bold metaphor is admirable, and the natural history of the stage has no occasion on a day of allegory and royal epithalamium to take exception at a dolphin who is son to a lion.

Times are changed and we must, to use the homely metaphor, cut our coat according to our cloth.

a name that has always eluded me; a metaphor that eluded them.See Synonyms at escape

Of the kinds of words we have enumerated it may be observed that compounds are most in place in the dithyramb, strange words in heroic, and metaphors in iambic poetry.

Edward Hirsch successfully and skillfully uses many language devices in his love poem“REGRET”including figurative languages, sppech styles, enjambment, metaphors, images, oxymoron, and chiasmus.