5 Words to use with metaphor
"A COMPARISON OR SIMILE, is, when the resemblance between two objects is expressed in form, and generally pursued more fully than the nature of a metaphor admits."Ib., p. 343.
By a striking metaphor capital is often described as the seed corn of industry.
In the early plays of Sir Arthur Pinero there is a great deal of extrinsic ornament; especially of that metaphor-hunting which was one of the characteristic forms of euphuism.
Was it but the metaphor-making of dreams, which will so often take our forgotten speculations and dramatise them for us into reality, or was it indeed a message?
A metaphor piquant by its oddity: Je crois que j'ai laissé ma respiration en chemin.