metaphor

In “Beowulf” and other works, these wetlands have also offered a useful literary metaphor as keepers of cultural memory and symbols of repressed terrors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

It is hard to imagine a more arresting metaphor for literature in wartime than a tattered book in which a single bloody fingerprint repeatedly appears in the margins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The New Zealand landscape does echo the rolling hills of Central California, in a dry season, but it’s a dreary vision, hardly the paradise of Steinbeck’s memory, book or metaphor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The royals are depicted as the type of children who come round, break your toys and then disappear, in what might be an extended metaphor for how he saw Diana's story.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

For someone like Kelsea, the black cloud is the right metaphor.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

There are metaphors, and there are metaphors, but this one is just too on the nose.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

"The proliferation of those struck me," Vara told Front Row, adding that the story also had a lot of metaphors, also prevalent in writing generated by AI.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Ms. Lee almost never uses figurative language—similes, metaphors, symbolism or anything that gives prose layering and subtext.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

And I wasn’t entirely thrilled with “Backrooms” getting lost in the maze of its metaphors, either.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

That supplies him with still other metaphors that can replace metadiscourse, such as moving together or cooperating on a project: The previous section analyzed the source of word sounds.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker