Metaphor
A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object. Metaphor is a type of analogy and is closely related to other rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via association, comparison or resemblance including allegory, hyperbole, and simile.
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Famous quotes containing the word metaphor:
“A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)