metaphor

Food as metaphor goes all the way back to the fruit in the Garden of Eden.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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

Take “Reinstall,” where she uses the reformatted hard drive as a metaphor for—well, it’s hard to say what, exactly, but it sounds good when she’s singing it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The house was a metaphor for the coldness of a relationship that’s faded and atrophied.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

There beside the hulk of the ruined car, countless miles from anywhere, Pollard was standing in a metaphor for his own life.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

He describes the scene in similes and metaphors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

“Really? Huh. Here I was looking for symbolism and metaphors and, um . . . sometimes a duck is just a duck!”

From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio