Metaphor (disambiguation)

Metaphor can mean:

Metaphor in literature and rhetoric, an analogy between two objects or ideas, conveyed by using a word instead of another word
Conceptual metaphor, metaphors in cognitive linguistics, understanding one idea or conceptual domain in terms of another
Interface metaphor, metaphors in computer science, for example an icon of a filing cabinet for "filestore"
"Metaphor", a song by In Flames from their album Reroute to Remain

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