Metaphors
The simplest and also the most effective poetic device is the use of comparison. It might almost be said that poetry is founded on two main means of comparing things: simile and metaphor. We heighten our ordinary speech by the continual use of such comparisons as "fresh as a daisy," "tough as leather," "comfortable as an old shoe," "it fits like the Paper on the wall," "gay as a lark," "happy as the day is long, pretty as a picture." These are all recognizable similes; they use the words "as" or "like."
The Metaphor Home Page
"Looking forward to," "the back of my mind," and "the highest importance."
Hundreds of spatial metaphors like these turn up in our thinking about the self and its social environment, moral values, and spirituality.
Metaself
seen the light at the end of the tunnel
Metaphor and Metaphysics
Visual Metaphor, Cultural Knowledge, and the New Rhetoric
Community Building as a Metaphor for a Worldwide Paradigm Shift
as comfortable as an old pair of shoes
Mind as Metaphor: A Physicalistic Approach to the Problem of Consciousness
The Rationality of Metaphor
Metaphor in Rhetoric
Center for the Cognitive Science of Metaphor Online
