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The 56 pages that link to Metaphor, each with the reason it gives.

• AllegoryRelated: Allegorical narratives can unfold a metaphor across characters and events.

• PersonificationNarrower topic: Personification often works by metaphorically treating a nonhuman subject as human.

• WordplayCompared with: Metaphor transfers meaning between ideas without requiring a joke or sound-based ambiguity.

• AnalogyCompared with: Metaphors can function analogically, though many rely on figurative association rather than explicit comparison.

• AllusionRelated: An allusion can supply the source behind a metaphor’s implied comparison.

• ElegyRelated: Images of seasons, journeys, and ruins let elegies represent loss indirectly.

• ParableNarrower topic: The story’s familiar situation can metaphorically illuminate an abstract moral or religious idea.

• Semantic changeRelated: Repeated metaphorical uses can become conventional meanings.

• Visual metaphorNarrower topic: Visual metaphor transfers metaphorical comparison from words to visible forms.

• ImageryRelated: A metaphor can make an abstract idea perceptible through a concrete image.

• Erotic literatureRelated: Metaphor can represent sexual experience indirectly, especially where explicit language is restricted.

• Popular scienceRelated: Metaphors create vivid explanations but can also imply misleading scientific mechanisms.

• JuxtapositionRelated: Juxtaposed images can imply a metaphor by inviting viewers to transfer meaning between them.

• ProverbRelated: Proverbs often use metaphor to turn an observation into a memorable image.

• Arabic rhetoricRelated: Arabic bayān analyzes metaphor as a transfer of meaning between domains.

• MalapropismCompared with: Metaphor deliberately transfers meaning; malapropism mistakenly selects a similar-sounding word.

• Raymond ChandlerRelated: Chandler’s startling metaphors make his descriptions as memorable as his plots.

• SimileCompared with: Unlike a typical simile, a metaphor states or implies identity rather than marking likeness with “like” or “as.”

• SynesthesiaNarrower topic: Descriptions such as “loud color” can be metaphorical without being synesthetic perception.

• Animal symbolismRelated: Calling someone a lion or fox transfers selected animal qualities to human roles.

• Hebrew poetryRelated: Images such as God as shepherd turn abstract claims into concrete poetic scenes.

• Paul CelanRelated: Celan’s recurring images make violence and memory present without reducing them to exposition.

• Book of ProverbsRelated: Images of paths, harvests, and fire turn moral consequences into concrete scenes.

• Epic simileCompared with: Unlike metaphor, an epic simile signals its comparison explicitly.

• ShapeshiftingNarrower topic: Stories use bodily transformation figuratively to express psychological and social change.

• HyperboleRelated: Hyperbole may combine with metaphor to make an imagined comparison deliberately excessive.

• SuggestionRelated: Metaphorical comparisons can suggest qualities without naming them directly.

• Language and thoughtRelated: Metaphorical language can reveal how familiar conceptual structures organize abstract thought.

• Luis de GóngoraNarrower topic: His extended, surprising metaphors are central to the density of his verse.

• René MagritteRelated: His images invite metaphorical readings without settling on one fixed symbolic meaning.

• Second Epistle to TimothyRelated: The soldier, athlete, and farmer images make endurance and discipline vivid in the letter.

• María ZambranoRelated: Her philosophical prose uses images and metaphors to convey what discursive argument alone cannot.

• Paul RicœurRelated: Ricœur argues that living metaphor redescribes reality rather than merely decorating language.

• Sonnet 18Related: The beloved’s beauty is measured against summer, whose flaws make the comparison unstable.

• StylisticsRelated: Metaphorical choices shape conceptual framing and can make a text’s imagery distinctive.

• Parables of JesusRelated: Parables often extend metaphor into a brief scene or narrative.

• The TygerNarrower topic: The tiger’s forged body makes creation feel like dangerous work at a furnace.

• Writing styleBroader topic: Recurring metaphors can make an author’s imagery and conceptual habits distinctive.

• Blowin' in the WindRelated: Wind makes the elusive answer vivid without defining what it is.

• Harry MartinsonRelated: He uses natural and technological images to make abstract ideas tangible.

• Literary deviceRelated: It creates meaning by transferring qualities between unlike things.

• PoetRelated: Poets use metaphor to compress associations and make abstract ideas tangible.

• Song of SongsRelated: The lovers praise each other through vivid comparisons to landscapes, animals, and objects.

• EthnolinguisticsRelated: Conventional metaphors can expose shared cultural models embedded in ordinary language.

• Herta MüllerRelated: Her compressed images give bodily and material shape to fear and political oppression.

• ImaginismRelated: Imaginists sought novel, striking metaphors rather than conventional poetic expressions.

• Lil WayneRelated: His lyrics frequently use extended and startling metaphorical comparisons.

• Matryoshka dollRelated: The nested dolls supply an image for layers hidden within a person or system.

• Russian rouletteNarrower topic: The phrase transfers the game’s life-or-death uncertainty to other kinds of risk.

• Twenty Love Poems and a Song of DespairRelated: Neruda’s lovers and landscapes repeatedly become metaphors for one another.