All associated concepts have been replaced under a category of figurative speech. An implied analogy in which one thing is compared or identified with another dissimilar thing. That is to say when a feeling is transformed into its metaphorical equivalent, it is sustained throughout the work and functions as a controlling image. Metaphors are 'vertical' in nature. They deepen the information.
Time is frozen while the information is developed.
The questions used to develop a metaphor develop space not time. A metaphor awakens the conceptions with more force and grace than 'everyday' language. An epistemological metaphor is personal and unique, translating a feeling or thought into a form that can travel through time to its original. Quadrant two and three questions develop metaphors. A symbol signifies or stands for something else.