Metaphor examples Metaphors are often used in poetry, literature, songs and everyday speech to make the tone more illustrative or expressive. "Life is a highway." ...

Metaphor of the Floating Life. By Song Lin, translated by Dong Li. On the twelve identical bridges not a single one without endless streams of traffic. The evening bell tolled, birds retrieved ...

To that end, this portrait of a fractured family serves as an apt metaphor for a fractured nation whose dysfunction — xenophobia, grievance, patriarchy, radicalism — is mirrored in the play by ...