... capacity to familiarize the strange, to expand ideas, to express feelings and evaluations, and to giveus pleasure, similes have an even greater power. They bringus more intimately in touch with ... and vivid image. Today "mouth" in this expres-sion is not felt to be metaphorical at all; it is taken literally to mean the wide-ning of a river as it empties into a larger body of ... OverworkedMetaphors and similes ought not to be sprinkled about pro-fusely, especially in expository writing. Even when they donot clash, too many are likely to cancel one another. Their depends...