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How to use metaphor in a sentence

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Later cases were less scrupulous in applying the metaphor and it came to be used in a very general sense.
As the metaphor implies, newer is not necessarily better, and the grandfather clock is still keeping good time.
Such a metaphor as the menu gives couples a vehicle for exploring their wants and desires.
Of course poetry is also, even largely, driven by metaphor and image, in a host of ways.
Whether he was hoping for a literal metaphor that expressed very clearly how he had lost his shirt, I cannot say.
That's got to be as poor a metaphor as I've ever seen, and if it's one of the book's quotable high points, the volume is in trouble.
A group of fruit trees in this work becomes a hideous metaphor for a world out of joint.
A well-worn metaphor is that of providing the fish or teaching someone to fish.
She draws a metaphor for how this is contrary to her work with children and adolescents.
When we are done, we will have a purer English, free of all nasty things like metaphor and simile and aestheticism and colour.
Motherhood is a powerful metaphor because it is central to esteemed ideals of womanhood, particularly among Latinos.
Her claim that voice is a worn-out metaphor rests, in large part, on its associations with oral literacy traditions.
On the other, his film is only a metaphor for an imaginary America so not to worry.
What intrigues me about the metaphor of alchemy is the importance it places on the process of transformation.
Nowhere do we see a case for Rowling being as allegorical as C.S. Lewis or as skilled with metaphor as Roald Dahl.
The second mitigating factor is that Crowley uses the entirety of time travel allegorically, as a metaphor for British colonialism.
For Hayes, the garden has become an all-encompassing metaphor for a life of plenitude.
They could add descriptive words, phrases or sentences, or they could write a poem, haiku, alliteration, metaphor, or perhaps words from a song.
For the trained symbologist, watching an early Disney movie was like being barraged by an avalanche of allusion and metaphor.
It seems to me that your observations about the need to use imagery, metaphor and allusion correctly are well taken.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I'll leave you to digest the mixed metaphor undisturbed while I go below and help with the patients who have begun pouring aboard.
To say that the Universals are archetypes, and that Particulars partake in them, is unmeaning, and mere poetic metaphor.
This is a metaphor, borrowed partly from the grazier's vocabulary, and partly from the arithmetician's vade-mecum.
In spite of herself, Beatrix laughed at the logical application of her metaphor.
Life is attributed to plants, only by a species of metaphor or catachresis.
Unfortunately, but by no accident, this metaphor was taken over in computer graphics.
Hautecoeur was talking with an enthused fervor that swept him into metaphor.
Allegory in the sense of Quintilian as a trope, an extended metaphor, Wilson mentions only once.
A metaphor taken from the game at cards called gleek, where a gleek of knaves is three.
I do not object to it being called 'the herd instinct,' so long as we realise that it is a metaphor and not an explanation.
Now, it is this sense of the solidity of things that can only be uttered by the metaphor of eating.
Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
He was the first to recognize the significance of kenning, metaphor, and compound.
The colonel informed me that the Lepcha language is very copious, expressive and beautiful, abounding largely in metaphor.
And this mangling of metaphor is to teach us the qualities of a profound and practical mind.
Figurative or tropical language chiefly consists in the transfer of words to new senses, as by metaphor or metonymy.
To begin with, such a metaphor is always as distracting as a mixed metaphor.
In no deliberative body in the world is the mixed metaphor so much in its element as in the British House of Commons.
But for my dread of a mixed metaphor I would add that they are moth-eaten and threadbare.
But Prof. almon Waite, toddling behind the treasure, had a metaphor of his own.
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