Categories: Comparisons
An example of simile and metaphor in popular sceicne writing:
"A sudden outbreak of disease – West Nile virus say, or cholera or salmonella – appears to us like a breach in a force field, an aberration that we expect some authority will address and stamp out before it comes close to threatening our families."
Thomas Goetz
Goetz, T. (2013). The Remedy. Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the quest to cure tuberculosis. Gotham Books.
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Tags: infectious disease
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