Categories: Comparisons
An example of simile and metaphor used in science communication:
"I spent much of my life staring down microscopes at these funny, sort of mundane, unremarkable, gloopy balloons…they're actually really these incredible cities buzzing with activity".
Dr Adam Rutherford
Dr Adam Rutherford was presenting an episode ('Building the Body, Opening the Heart') of BBC Radio 4's 'Start the week' programme/podcast.
There is a simile as cells are only 'sort of ' balloons, but they are said to be 'actually really ' cities – but they are not: so, that is a (category error or) metaphor.
