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    "Well, that metaphor is prohibited on today's flight," she said.  (source)
    metaphor = symbol (where a similarity between two things is highlighted by using one of them to represent the other)
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    Here I was looking for symbolism and metaphors and, um …. sometimes a duck is just a duck!  (source)
    metaphors = figures of speech in which a similarity between two things is highlighted
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    It was falling so hard that it looked like white sparks (and this is a simile, too, not a metaphor).  (source)
    metaphor = a figure of speech in which a word is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity -- as when Shakespeare wrote, "All the world's a stage."
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    And I don't mean "kill" as in "metaphor."  (source)
    metaphor = a figure of speech in which a word is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity -- as when Shakespeare wrote, "All the world's a stage."
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    One Sunday night, lost in fruity metaphors and florid diction, Judge Taylor's attention was wrenched from the page by an irritating scratching noise.  (source)
    metaphors = figures of speech
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    "She's raising wordless screams and bleeding invisible blood." "In a metaphorical sense?"  (source)
    metaphorical = symbolic--not literal
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    I spoke metaphorically.  (source)
    metaphorically = using a figure of speech
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    The trance happens when you don't focus on anything, and the whole big picture swallows and moves around you. She said it was usually metaphoric, but for people who should never do acid again, it was literal.  (source)
    metaphoric = like a figure of speech in which a word is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity -- as when Shakespeare wrote, "All the world's a stage."
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    Until I concluded a little too unmetaphorically, "So is there any activity in our old cells?"†  (source)
    unmetaphorically = in a literal way (not figurative)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unmetaphorically means not and reverses the meaning of metaphorically. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    "the bad guy is always a black-hearted villain. ... The tones of black and white have the greatest amount of contrast between them, therefore writers and poets, who have always dealt with extremes in passion and people, use black and white to create those images of contrast. Can you think of any other example where color is used as a metaphor to express an idea?"  (source)
    metaphor = a figure of speech in which a word is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity -- as when Shakespeare wrote, "All the world's a stage."
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    With limited instruction, he had perfected the art of withholding his insights, forgoing his witticisms, curbing the use of metaphors, similes, and analogies—in essence, exercising every muscle of poetic restraint.†  (source)
    metaphors = figures of speech in which a similarity between two things is highlighted
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    Mr. Reed tells students they have to interview someone—a mother or father or grandparent—about their own portages, the moments in their lives when they've had to take a journey, literal or metaphorical.  (source)
    metaphorical = as a figure of speech
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    I wondered if they might be used — metaphorically, of course — to demonstrate the existence of God.†  (source)
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