What in this sentence is a metaphor?
I have three candles here on the table which I disentangle from plants and light when visitors come. Small usually avoids them, although once she came too close and her tail caught fire; I rubbed it out before she noticed. The flames move light over everyone's skin, draw light to the surface of the faces of my friends. When the people leave I never blow the candles out, and after I'm asleep they flame and burn.
How can flames move, or draw <b/> light?
If I remember my grammar (and I seldom do), these are called "dead" metaphors. Dead metaphors typically relate physical action to an object which is not present, but the use of this mentioned physical action is seldom actually visualized by the reader.
Grasping ideas, strangling dissent, stomping minority views ...all are of the same vein.
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In the given sentence, the metaphors are "the flames move light over everyone's skin" and "draw light to the surface of the faces of my friends."
To understand how flames can "move" or "draw" light, we need to understand that these phrases use metaphoric language. In this context, "move" and "draw" are being used metaphorically to describe the way the flames interact with light. It suggests that the flames cause the light to spread or illuminate the surrounding area, much like how an artist may move a paintbrush or a magnet may draw metal towards it.
As for the rest of your question, "hi ", it appears to be an incomplete HTML tag. The "" is used to end a bold formatting tag in HTML, but without the opening "" tag, it doesn't serve any purpose in this text-based context.