Device
Device noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
Metaphor
Metaphor noun - An elaborate or fanciful way of expressing something.
Usage example: “it's raining cats and dogs” is just a colorful metaphor and not a meteorological announcement
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Synonyms for Metaphor
Device and metaphor are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Device" instead a noun "Metaphor".
Nearby Word: metaphorical
How words are described
| good | good device | good metaphor |
| special | special device | special metaphor |
| elaborate | elaborate device | elaborate metaphor |
| similar | similar device | similar metaphor |
| Other adjectives: common, complex, convenient, single, simple, powerful, actual, large, big, great, complicated, huge, little, personal, new, weird, strange, central, recurring, visual, handy, giant. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- In literature, a conceit is an idea, collection of ideas, metaphor, structure, or other imagined device which defines or enables the world of the story, or some action in it.
Source: Conceit - Also, using a metaphor involving the sonic screwdriver and a pane of glass, he managed to convince Yvonne Hartman, leader of Torchwood 1, that the dimensional device was tearing holes in reality and she had to stop.
Source: The Cassandra -
Leno Device: Forrest appears on the Dick Cavett Show (alongside John Lennon ) in the wake of his ping pong success Literal-Minded: Forrest has no concept of metaphor.
Source: Film / Forrest Gump
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