metaphor
metafora
definition
noun
“I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression,” said Mark, who was fond of theatrical metaphors
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
example
The title is a 'metaphor' for the need to satisfy cravings that perhaps we do not always fully recognize.
He is a recurring 'metaphor' for the colour and movement of Australians at play.
What kept me reading was how the novel worked as such a creepy 'metaphor' for contemporary America.
The torso also includes the heart, a 'metaphor' for your vital life force, as well as representing the bonds of love.
the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a 'metaphor' for an industry that was teetering
I prefer to think that stiff-neckedness is a 'metaphor' for being stubbornly set in one's ways.
her poetry depends on suggestion and 'metaphor'
Somehow niggling at my brain is this apartment as a 'metaphor' for the Korean Way of Doing Things.
I had also meant for this story to be a 'metaphor' for my own life as I knew it and saw it.
What is known is that the ball was a 'metaphor' for the movement of the sun, and by extension also of the moon and stars.
when we speak of gene maps and gene mapping, we use a cartographic 'metaphor'
Smoking is an epidemic; it is a 'metaphor' for cancer in its spread as much as it is for infecting people with cancer.
Yet its importance as a 'metaphor' for evil means that the coalition remains desperate to exorcise these demons.
her poetry depends on suggestion and 'metaphor'
In the story, this inability to finish a picture is a 'metaphor' for being reluctant to commit to a relationship.
The 'metaphor' of consumption dominates this speech and connects each image.
It's almost a 'metaphor' for immigrant life, which has to be retooled to succeed in America.
the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a 'metaphor' for an industry that was teetering
From what I've read the film is more of a 'metaphor' for home coming/coming out.
Never use a 'metaphor' , simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
This would be a good 'metaphor' for something, no doubt, if I could only pin it down.
Images are often presented through figures of speech like simile and 'metaphor' .
Throughout the film, the necklace serves as a 'metaphor' for her freedom to live a life of her choosing.
This could be seen as a 'metaphor' for writing fiction, but the story itself seems too schematic.
So if my garden is a 'metaphor' for my life now then I'm in big trouble!
I like to think of the rats as a 'metaphor' for the city's egalitarianism.
The book's title is, of course, a 'metaphor' for what she as a writer does.
The usual suspect, Mr Duff, was never really in the running - literally as well as 'metaphorically' .
We think in similes and 'metaphors' ; some people simply carry the levels of identification farther than others.
Salt's ability to preserve and sustain life has made it a 'metaphorical' symbol in every religion.
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