Emanuele Tesauro was an Italian philosopher, rhetorician, literary theorist, dramatist, Marinist poet, and historian.
Frontispice of the 1670 edition of il Cannocchiale aristotelico
Frontispice of the 1679 edition of Historia dell'Augustissima Città di Torino
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. It may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities between two different ideas. Metaphors are usually meant to create a likeness or an analogy.
A political cartoon by illustrator S.D. Ehrhart in an 1894 Puck magazine shows a farm woman labeled "Democratic Party" sheltering from a tornado of political change.
"The Asherah is part of a jigsaw in weaving together the feminine threads of a religious history that could be an important new breakthrough for women, she says." An example of mixed metaphor in print.
A metaphorical visualization of the word anger
Tombstone of a Jewish woman depicting broken candles, a visual metaphor of the end of life