DETAILS, FICTION AND METAFORA

An implicit metaphor has no specified tenor, although the automobile is current. M. H. Abrams features the following for instance of an implicit metaphor: "That reed was too frail to survive the storm of its sorrows".In his book In Other Shoes: Tunes, Metaphor, Empathy, Existence Kendall Walton also spots the formulation of metaphors at the center