Anonymous What is a metaphor?

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1. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable - “I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression,” said Mark, who was fond of theatrical metaphors - her poetry depends on suggestion and metaphor.
2. A thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, esp. something abstract - the amounts of money being lost