Metaphors, are usually used to compare things in a clever or imaginative way. It is also

one of the most commonly used literary devices. Unlike similes, metaphors do not use the words

""like" or "as". Instead, metaphors explicitly compare the 2 unlike things, with a veryi

important similarity. It can describe resemblence, be used to represent a symbol, or an emblem.

Here's an example of a metaphor. He was such a cow, he ate all the food. . He is being

compared to a cow, because cows eat a lot, but he is not actually, a cow.

The author of Dr. Heidegger's, experiment, uses a metaphor, too. The author makes the

magic elixir a metaphor for sins, and gives us the message that doing too many sinful

actions will Meventually hurt us. Metaphors emphasize the main features of the

items being compared. They might not be very similar, but there is always one feature that

connects them. Here is a metaphor by Richard Brautigan. "The road was very bleak, wandering

like the handwriting of a dying person over the hills".Roads and handwriting do not have

much in common, but the author connects them in a way that we understand, and creates a

picture in our minds of that road. Metaphors enhance literature by helpingh us visualize

,almost exactly, what the author is thinking, as he writes his work

To further enhance the imagery and visualization, authors combine metaphors with other literary

devices, like personification and hyperbolees. These are what make authors write so descriptively.