If you want to be truly pendatic, the “mind’s eye” and “picturing” are analogies and not metaphors.
The mind’s eye is like that of a physical, sensory eye, but doesn’t replace it.
Analogy: “Joe looks at you, his eyes like gemstones” Metaphor: “Joe looks at your with his gemstones”
Analogy: “I am picturing it in my mind’s eye as if I had a second pair of eyes” Metaphor: “I am picturing it with my second pair of eyes”
If you want to be even more pendantic, we could have a Idealist discussion of the metaphysics of sense and that all pictures are mental pictures, since the image doesn’t exist the instant that photons are received by the retina, but are accumulated through a series of processes in the brain—particularly the visual cortex.
Whoever wrote that article is confused, since in the table in the section labeled “Analogy vs Simile: The Differences” they have several entries the wrong way around (compared to the two paragraphs preceding it).
It seems to me that you could use the same comparison for either an analogy or a simile. An analogy would usually be in the present tense, “X is like Y”, and followed by more explanation of the concept the analogy is meant to illustrate. A simile would more frequently be in the past tense as part of a narrative, and more frequently use other verbs than “is”—”X moved like a Y”—and probably wouldn’t extend beyond the current sentence, usually not even beyond that phrase. I think a bare statement of “X is like Y” might go either way.
If you want to be truly pendatic, the “mind’s eye” and “picturing” are analogies and not metaphors.
The mind’s eye is like that of a physical, sensory eye, but doesn’t replace it.
Analogy: “Joe looks at you, his eyes like gemstones”
Metaphor: “Joe looks at your with his gemstones”
Analogy: “I am picturing it in my mind’s eye as if I had a second pair of eyes”
Metaphor: “I am picturing it with my second pair of eyes”
If you want to be even more pendantic, we could have a Idealist discussion of the metaphysics of sense and that all pictures are mental pictures, since the image doesn’t exist the instant that photons are received by the retina, but are accumulated through a series of processes in the brain—particularly the visual cortex.
You’re using “analogy” to describe what I was always taught is a “simile”.
I think you’re right. Although I’m having a hard time expressing where to draw the line between a simile and a analogy even after glancing at this article; https://www.grammarpalette.com/analogy-vs-simile-dont-be-confused/
Whoever wrote that article is confused, since in the table in the section labeled “Analogy vs Simile: The Differences” they have several entries the wrong way around (compared to the two paragraphs preceding it).
It seems to me that you could use the same comparison for either an analogy or a simile. An analogy would usually be in the present tense, “X is like Y”, and followed by more explanation of the concept the analogy is meant to illustrate. A simile would more frequently be in the past tense as part of a narrative, and more frequently use other verbs than “is”—”X moved like a Y”—and probably wouldn’t extend beyond the current sentence, usually not even beyond that phrase. I think a bare statement of “X is like Y” might go either way.
Your first point is a good one And your second point successfully annoyed me