“METAPHOR” на українській мові

The term ‘fossil’ is more of a metaphor here.

”MARK MORRIS, AUTHOR OF TOADY, STITCH AND MANY MORE“The Loosening Skin works as a quirky new weird thriller, but its triumph lies in the way Whiteley uses the metaphor of shedding skin to examine the tortured process of love and attachment.

If Edge Knot City was a miniature version of America after the Death Stranding, this museum was nothing but a metaphor for the America that had existed before.

Was that supposed to be some kind of metaphor?