Categories: Comparisons
An example of a metaphor in popular science writing:
"Throughout the Milky Way there is a diffuse gas. A gas, you will remember is a swarm of separate atoms and simple molecules."
Fred Hoyle (1960) The Nature of the Universe (Revised ed.), 1960
Read about examples of science similes
Many examples of science similes are listed in 'Creative Comparisons: Making Science Familiar through Language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts'. Free Download.
