Metaphor [met-uh-fawr, -fer]
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Aristotle wrote that mastery over the art of
metaphor is a sign of genius, but what does this ubiquitous literary term mean
in its most basic form? A metaphor is a figure of speech in
which a term is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in
order to suggest a resemblance, as in “She is a rose.” Excluding the
possibility that the subject of this sentence is literally a flower, this
example suggests that the subject possesses figurative extensions of qualities
or attributes of a rose, such as exquisite beauty or perhaps a prickly
disposition.
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