"metaphor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The poem starts with a striking metaphor of blood replacing both light and darkness as victim's eyes were plucked out with a knife.
- And the simplicity of the empty stage, with the chairs being used to fill a variety of functions, is a striking visual metaphor about life.
- In fact, Darwin strongly advocated such a concept of nature's plenitude梐 notion that he tended to defend with a striking metaphor of the "wedge."
- Popper emphasizes the point with a striking metaphor.
- Combining inside and out, his pictures offer striking metaphors for the public and private faces of family life.
- The oracle contains a number of striking metaphors.
- The rebirth of the Monongahela and Johnson's unlikely occupation make a striking metaphor for the surprising changes this city has seen over the last decade.
- There is the apt use of an occasional archaic or unusual word, the short, strong descriptions, the striking metaphors, the somewhat staccato fashion of speech.
- For instance, a frequently broadcast television commercial for Medi-Flu, introduced in 1990, presents a series of striking visual metaphors to get its point across.
- A striking metaphor is always a disruption of the habitual and conventional.
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