7 Metaphors for echo

Echo was then a maid, of speech bereft, Of wonted speech; for though her voice was left, Juno a curse did on her tongue impose, To sport with every sentence in the close.

It is the climax of irony, and its million echoes are hisses and jeers, even from the earth's ends.

They had proceeded in this way for half an hour longer, when the Baron at last bethought himself of his bugle, and wound a long and powerful blast; but the echo was the only answer he received.

(1) Echo pined away into (as the accustomed phrase goes) 'a mere shadow of her former self.' (2) Just as a solid body, lighted by the sun, casts, as a necessary concomitant, a shadow of itself, so a sound, emitted under the requisite conditions, casts an echo of itself; echo is, in relation to sound, the same sort of thing as shadow in relation to substance.

But the echoes were the only sounds that answered their reports, and it was clear that no native camp was within hearing.

My echo of Lillian's words was but a trembling stammer.

ECHO, in classic poetry, is a female, and in English also; but in Ossian echo is called "the son of the rock.

7 Metaphors for  echo