- METAPHOR
- Love is a battlefield, e.g.
- Figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared
- The Asphalt Jungle, literarily
- Figure of speech
- Heart of gold, for one
- It's sometimes mixed
- All the world's a stage, for example.
- Why, the world's mine oyster.
- NERVES OF STEEL
- Something often mixed
- Implied comparison
- Life is a bowl of cherries, e.g.
- A mighty fortress is our God, e.g.
- Sand in an hourglass, for time
- Something that shouldn't be mixed
- Nerves of steel, e.g.
- Symbolic figure of speech
- Love is a rose for example
- Life's a beach is one
- Spoon theory, for example
- Franklin's "A good conscience is a continual Christmas," e.g.
