There is a good example of a metaphor right near the
beginning of "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"
Colonel Killigrew had wasted his best years,
and his health and substance, in the pursuit of sinful pleasures, which had
given birth to a brood of pains, such as the gout, and divers other
torments of soul and
body.
Colonel Killigrew's
sinful pleasure could not have literally "given birth" to his various pains. Rather,
Hawthorne means that the sinful life of overeating and loose morals had
brought about the Colonel's ailments just like the process of birth
brings about a new baby.
This is a classic example of
metaphor: it compares two things without using the words "like" or
"as."
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