Never one to resist a good metaphor, the author draws a comparison with the half-human, half-beast figure of Egyptian mythology, the Sphinx.
"When choosing your words, keep in mind that preschool-age children and early school-age children don't do metaphor," the authors advise.
But what metaphor could an author make of such delusion?
What metaphor does the author use to discuss hybrid cars making people "feel good"?
A metaphor for the author's achievement can be found in her tale of Luka, a dreamy, brooding butcher's son from a mountain village called Galina.
A scene in which the girl and her servant watch a wedding from a pavilion in the garden, which overtly symbolizes the girl's elevation -- she longs to "be a part of the crowd" but is "higher than them all" -- becomes an inadvertent metaphor for the author's crippling omniscience.
What does this tense tell you about how factual or speculative the statement is? –Are there examples of rhetorical devices (such as images or metaphors) that the author uses in this sentence to emphasize a particular point?
In approaching metaphor computationally, some authors, e.g., Dedre Gentner (see Falkenhainer et al. 1989), have viewed it as depending on shared properties and relational structure (while allowing for discordant ones), directly attached to the concepts being compared.
That's mixing author metaphors -- "Cloud Atlas" was penned by David Mitchell; "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" is Dave Eggers -- but, still: As directed by Andy and Lana Wachowski (the "Matrix" trilogy) and Tom Tykwer ("Run Lola Run"), the film adaptation of "Cloud Atlas" looks like one of the most ambitious, massive, messy, emotional and downright fascinating movies of 2012.
The story serves as a nice metaphor for what the author is about.
