Fresh metaphors

Fresh metaphors

ByJosh Bernoff

Picking metaphors and similes is like picking vegetables — the fresh ones have the most flavor. A good metaphor isn’t as old and hackneyed as the presidential horse race, nor is it as bewildering as a new version of Windows on the first day. Learn from the masters of metaphor, like Matt Taibbi. Metaphors should be clever, but not…

Matt Taibbi, master of metaphor, vivisects Trump in Rolling Stone
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Matt Taibbi, master of metaphor, vivisects Trump in Rolling Stone

ByJosh Bernoff

In the hands of a master, metaphor makes prose vivid and memorable. That’s what Matt Taibbi just did with his deconstruction of Donald Trump in Rolling Stone. I’ve written about how inadvertent metaphor overload destroys the lazily edited 500-word article. But metaphors — even lots of them — can make a longer narration dance in…