What is the correct literary term for this?

Question

"...with the serenity of a man whose customary implement is a butcher knife..."

Would that be described as a metaphor? I am unsure.

Thanks in advance :) !

Answer 1

Metaphor:

a comparison between two things, based on resemblance or similarity, without using "like" or "as"

most dictionaries and textbooks



the act of giving a thing a name that belongs to something else

Aristotle



the transferring of things and words from their proper signification to an improper similitude for the sake of beauty, necessity, polish, or emphasis

Diomedes



a device for seeing something in terms of something else

Kenneth Burke



understanding and experiencing one thing in terms of another

John Searle



a simile contracted to its smallest dimensions

Joseph Priestly



I would say so!

Answer 2

its not anything its just good description

it just makes the line interesting

metaphor is when you say something is something else for example

"her eyes were blue jewels" and thats not what this writer is doing.