It is usually some kind of metaphor, which I feel reveals a deeper truth.
Unlike metaphor, which suppresses "as" or "like," simile shows its fictive hand.
The Democrat does trade in one particular metaphor, which is Vietnam.
Those who speak of intellectual buzz, then, might be using a metaphor which is more apt than they realise.
Both require the use of metaphor, "which can flash us past our plodding resistance and habits into strange new truths".
It is a telling metaphor, which reveals his ambition, and how seriously he takes the industry and his career.
There is also a video by Bruce Nauman, "Setting a Good Corner (Allegory and Metaphor)," which shows him, working alone, setting three fence posts.
There is, of course, a certain perversity in this metaphor, which refuses to allow that any part of human life takes place in the daytime.
But "dead" metaphors (as opposed to "dying" ones, in Orwell's classification) are barely processed as metaphor, which is why people don't even notice them.
One of Brooke's preoccupations is with metaphor, which she gradually understands is "just a way of saying something that is difficult to say".
itself: it burdens this modest, disturbing and mostly well-observed story with the baggage of metaphor, which puffs the movie up rather than deepening it.
