The look (metaphor)
The look that Ramses has given her listeners is construed metaphorically. It was that she “had perfected negotiating” earlier with warlords. It was about “to make herself a mirror” meaning that looking into her eyes people would know how they would feel years later.
Aware of danger (metaphor)
One moment, Ramses felt that she might be in danger staying with Jefferson alone, and her “spine straightened, situational awareness training rushing back with her macabre fantasy”.
The Myth (simile)
When Ramses spotted the Myth for the first time, it looked to her “like old drawing of the Tower of Babel” that Ramses had once noticed her uncle’s Bible when was a kid. However, inside it was “a set of nested domes, massive arching struts supporting wooden platforms with occasional rope bridge.” An impressive vision, “the most beautiful thing she had ever seen”.
The Earth’s lungs (metaphor)
Nina Mitra explains Ramses the importance of the everglades. They pill poison out of the air more efficiently than rainforests, and “to lose it would be to lose the Earth a little lung”.
Environmental redemption (metaphor)
The Myth is metaphorically called “a total package of environmental redemption”, as its aim is to create a place for the lost and dying insects that are important for certain ecosystems. It was a New Wetland.
