They did not draw metaphoric diagrammatic devices, likely. Congenitally blind subject behaved like early and late blind subjects. Blind and sighted subjects were asked to judge the meanings of different devices suggesting motions. The subjects were given 5 shapes of spokes in a wheel, and 5 different kinds of motion. Please also note alternative versions of this study.
Propositions use all, some and none.
Pictures do use parallels or analogies e.g. lawyers as sharks, tanks as hawks on a battlefield. Pictures can violate the location e.g. to exaggerate the size of a nose, or to make someone more old fashioned than they truly are. They can also show a part to mean a whole. Motion lines in comic books often repeat the past as trails of profiles in the present. In conclusion, pictorial devices indicating events, including motion lines, are metaphoric.