They tubed down the Colorado River.

Descriptionistic approaches to poetical tropes go back to Aristotle (Poetics XI, 1457b), who considered metaphor as a kind of analogy assuming that, in the metaphor, the words pointing out a comparison (“as if”, “looks like”, etc.) are omitted, although they are implied.

The motivational speaker started with a pratfall so he could speak about the importance of getting back up.

The festival had balloons, flowers, fireworks, performers, and the whole shebang.