metaphor

In a 1944 letter, he noted that he sometimes found Welty’s gorgeous metaphors and similes a distraction, “touching something outside the story so vividly that for a moment the mind shifts away from the theme.”

The undercooked turkey may act as a metaphor for your relationship with your sister.

It’s a joke, sure, but it also nails the metaphor: gravy is what you get when fortune tips your way; beans are what you settle for when it doesn’t.

In one of his many arresting metaphors, Wittgenstein claimed that the aim of philosophy is “to show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.”

Igor’s fading memory proves to be an apt, albeit obvious metaphor for a vocation slowly losing its connection to its past as truffles have emerged as a hot gastronomic trend.