We use metaphors every day. Many common idioms and phrases are metaphors. I'd like to know what YWSers think is the main purpose of a metaphor. What makes a metaphor good or bad, effective or ineffective? How can using a particular metaphor help or hurt us?
He began to wonder why he had felt uneasy at all. It was like a man wondering in broad daylight why a dream had appeared so terrible to him at night. — Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
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