How Writers Extend Standard Metaphors; and how Val McDermid does
How artists extend or elaborate conventional metaphors was brought home to me forcefully and repeatedly while reading a detective novel Broken Ground[ii] by Val McDermid.
Lessons from the book of life
During the final rallies of her election campaign, US presidential candidate Kamala Harris drew on one metaphor time and time again. She said she was determined, or she saw a nation determined, ‘to turn the page on hatred and division’.