Word: metaphoric
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...concludes the third and final section of this poem with a reiteration of this message, but in language characterized by a hyper-emotional, almost agonized tone. With metaphor based on the line "Every scream of fear is a white needle freezing the eyes," she writes...
Stolen Fire. In the novel. Caldwell's life is recalled years later by his son Peter. Partly as metaphor, partly by metamorphosis in Peter's mind. Caldwell the science teacher becomes Chiron, in Greek mythology the wisest of the Centaurs. It was Chiron who taught the young heroes and godlings, and who, wounded by one of Hercules' poisoned arrows, longed for death, although he was immortal. Chiron was allowed death after he gave his immortality to Prometheus, who created man and stole fire for him from Olympus...
...author had not decided to tie his story to mythology, this could have been enough. In fact more than enough; the psoriasis might easily have been left out. As things stand, Updike's enormous, unbalanced metaphor eventually topples off the edge of audacity into preciousness...
...collected wisdom of the discipline, must be not only used but totally assimilated as well. Soon he was thinking in terms of maximized efficiency, input-output ratios, and consumer indifference curves. Second, there was the need to guard against vague language. On those occasions when he permitted himself a metaphor Herbert always added "so to speak" or "as it were" so that it would be clear that he was merely using a figure of speech...
...counteract the existing emotional preconceptions and the partisan vocabulary that clouds East-West writing and thinking, Johnson has tried to invent an entirely neutral language. It avoids metaphor. It examines not souls but outer surfaces, which can be seen and verified. What emerges with surprising vividness is a finely woven texture of physical existence in the East zone. Against this background, a Western reader, spurred by the effort to fill in the outlines of individual emotion only hinted at by the author, soon begins to speculate on small and large moral questions. Sample problem for a border guard...