@Lady the furmer is the more interesting device but idk that i’d call it a metaphor

@aescling so when you think people are speaking metaphorically that means they are saying “her smile was a sunrise” a bunch

@aescling when someone says “X is a metaphor” that means X is a figure of speech like “the mountains were a great maw rising towards the stars”

@Lady if i were feeling very pedantic about it that is what i would say, yes

@aescling you would be wrong since “X is a metaphor” takes a prepositional phrase, “for Y”, which makes no fucking sense with your definition

@Lady i disagree that it necessarily takes a puurepositional phrase