This form of mirroring is a common literary metaphor.

In 1913 he published 'Enjoyment of Poetry', an examination of literary metaphor from a psychological point of view.

Zhuangzi's Peng bird became a famous literary metaphor.

After a while, however, Rita's upbeat though fated-for-deflation epiphanies become taxing, as does the incongruity of street language spiked with more "literary" metaphors.

Or maybe even a spectacular literary metaphor?

LIGHT is the reigning literary metaphor and visual principle in the film.

The book also explores the relationship between literal metamorphosis and literary metaphor.

But your literary metaphor is far from clear, let alone convincing.

Most Tunisians are accustomed to references made about the Muslim world, for spiritual inspiration, literary metaphor, historical analogy.

Well, for us exile is not just a literary metaphor or convenient refrain.