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Why are metaphors and allusions used while writing?

Yohan John's answer: [By request, I'm copying a blog post I wrote on the topic of metaphor.] Metaphor: the Alchemy of Thought In the murky centuries before the dawn of the scientific age, alchemists used the phrase "As above, so below" to convey their belief that the neat order observed in t...