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The clue to implicit metaphor may sometimes be something imagined.
The qualifier may matters: it does not state that every clue must be a nonexistent imagined organ. “Claws of death” readily allows such an analysis, but an action attributed to a nonliteral agent may signal a concealed comparison without requiring the same imagined anatomy.
It is therefore inaccurate to define every clue as a hypothetical body part. Its function is to indicate the concealed likeness; the precise kind of clue depends on the expression being analyzed.