metaphor
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definition
noun
“I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression,” said Mark, who was fond of theatrical metaphors
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
example
The 'metaphor' of consumption dominates this speech and connects each image.
when we speak of gene maps and gene mapping, we use a cartographic 'metaphor'
her poetry depends on suggestion and 'metaphor'
Yet its importance as a 'metaphor' for evil means that the coalition remains desperate to exorcise these demons.
I had also meant for this story to be a 'metaphor' for my own life as I knew it and saw it.
I prefer to think that stiff-neckedness is a 'metaphor' for being stubbornly set in one's ways.
He is a recurring 'metaphor' for the colour and movement of Australians at play.
Images are often presented through figures of speech like simile and 'metaphor' .
I like to think of the rats as a 'metaphor' for the city's egalitarianism.
Never use a 'metaphor' , simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a 'metaphor' for an industry that was teetering
This could be seen as a 'metaphor' for writing fiction, but the story itself seems too schematic.
It's almost a 'metaphor' for immigrant life, which has to be retooled to succeed in America.
her poetry depends on suggestion and 'metaphor'
In the story, this inability to finish a picture is a 'metaphor' for being reluctant to commit to a relationship.
What kept me reading was how the novel worked as such a creepy 'metaphor' for contemporary America.
Smoking is an epidemic; it is a 'metaphor' for cancer in its spread as much as it is for infecting people with cancer.
What is known is that the ball was a 'metaphor' for the movement of the sun, and by extension also of the moon and stars.
The torso also includes the heart, a 'metaphor' for your vital life force, as well as representing the bonds of love.
The book's title is, of course, a 'metaphor' for what she as a writer does.
Somehow niggling at my brain is this apartment as a 'metaphor' for the Korean Way of Doing Things.
From what I've read the film is more of a 'metaphor' for home coming/coming out.
The title is a 'metaphor' for the need to satisfy cravings that perhaps we do not always fully recognize.
Throughout the film, the necklace serves as a 'metaphor' for her freedom to live a life of her choosing.
This would be a good 'metaphor' for something, no doubt, if I could only pin it down.
the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a 'metaphor' for an industry that was teetering
So if my garden is a 'metaphor' for my life now then I'm in big trouble!
The 'metaphorical' mist that has been fugging up my brain has disappeared, only to be replaced by real mist fugging up my windscreen.
The manipulated photographs are totally seamless and their 'metaphoric' power is matched only by their technical expertise.
It's an epic journey of sorts, where they 'metaphorically' expand their minds and all those around them.
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