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What characteristics make a metaphor powerful and effective?

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They allow writers to convey vivid imagery that exceed literal meanings, creates images that are easier to understand and respond to than literal language.

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A great metaphor recasts the familiar or mundane as something strikingly different yet truly parallel. It gives a startlingly vivid picture or brings a surprising insight. A bad metaphor fails to achieve the parallel, or the fresh insight, or both. The element of surprise is an important part of a great metaphor.

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