Breakfast of Champions

What metaphors are used in Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut?

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"Those people were infected with carnivorous little corkscrews which could be seen only with a microscope. The victims' vertebrae were welded together after the corkscrews got through with the meat between. The syphilitics seemed tremendously dignified - erect, eyes straight ahead.

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Breakfast of Champions