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noun
The use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it is not, invoking a direct similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described (but in the case of English without the words like or as, which would imply a simile); the word or phrase used in this way; an implied comparison.
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Silent film elevated the kinetic to metaphor.
Finlay pays close attention to metaphor".
— that it is impossible to fathom without resorting to metaphor.
No longer a mere monster, you ascended to metaphor.
Valuable, rare, durable, and impervious to tarnish, gold has always lent itself easily to metaphor.
Martin's art is flinty in its abnegations and materialist — resistant to metaphor — in its effects.
"Click of a mouse", then, is unlikely to graduate to metaphor status.
I resort to metaphor because I lack more precise techniques for describing intuitive genius.
And her lyrics are unguarded and unadorned, only occasionally turning to metaphor.
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Apparently, the Nazis are Carson's go-to metaphor.
Shapeshifting, which is one of the most powerful attractions of magical beings (possibly because it is related in the general process of the imagination to metaphor-making?), is even odder when we get to the category of Bogey Beasts.
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