The metaphor category contains these specialized types: Allegory: An extended metaphor wherein a story illustrates an important attribute of the subject. Antithesis: A rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences. Catachresis: A mixed metaphor, sometimes used by design and sometimes by accident (a rhetorical fault). Hyperbole: Excessive exaggeration to illustrate a point. Parable: An extended metaphor told as an anecdote to illustrate or teach a moral or spiritual lesson, such as in Aesop's fables or Jesus' teaching method as told in the Bible. Pun: A verbal device by which multiple definitions of a word or its homophones are used to give a sentence multiple valid readings, typically to humorous effect. Similitude: An extended simile or metaphor that has a picture part (), a reality part (), and a point of comparison (tertium comparationis).Adolf Jülicher, Die Gleichnisreden Jesu, 2nd ed (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1910). Similitudes are found in the parables of Jesus.
The metaphor category contains these specialized types: Allegory: An extended metaphor wherein a story illustrates an important attribute of the subject. Antithesis A rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences. Catachresis: A mixed metaphor, sometimes used by design and sometimes by accident (a rhetorical fault). Hyperbole: Excessive exaggeration to illustrate a point. Parable: An extended metaphor told as an anecdote to illustrate or teach a moral or spiritual lesson, such as in Aesop's fables or Jesus' teaching method as t,old in the Bible. Pun: A verbal device by which multiple definitions of a word or its homophones are used to give a sentence multiple valid readings, typically to humo:rous effect. Simil.itude: An extended simile or metaphor that has a picture part (), a reality part () and a point of comparison (tertium comparationis).Adolf Jülicher, Die Gleichnisreden Jesu, 2nd ed (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1910) Similitudes are found in the parables of Jesus.