metaphor
Example Sentences
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His central metaphor is the memory palace, an ancient Greek mnemonic technique that employs spatial imagination to organize and access information.
Opalite is a man-made version of the stone - which Swift uses as a metaphor for the fact her happiness is a tangible, human phenomenon, instead of a product of luck or magoc.
From BBC
For Ms. Back, teaching literature was a performance, in which she stood before the classroom and marveled at “the glorious metaphor, the heartbreaking image, the joy-inspiring music of the poem.”
“What a Wonderful World” treats dissonance, cacophony and intensity as metaphors for daily life.
From Los Angeles Times
Her dress designer fashions the closest thing the film has to a metaphor for Melania herself: a gown constructed with no visible seams.
From Los Angeles Times
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