The Purloined Letter

What metaphors are used in The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe?

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“The material world,” continued Dupin, “abounds with very strict analogies to the immaterial; and thus some color of truth has been given to the rhetorical dogma, that metaphor, or simile, may be made to strengthen an argument, as well as to embellish a description.

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The Purloined Letter