Metaphor
Yes, it is a metaphor.
No. One word does not make a metaphor. "Bob is groaning" would be the closest you could get, but that is a statement, not a metaphor.
obtuse
Pools
the rats eat meat as humans do
A metaphor of a skeleton is suggesting that the skeleton is the remains of something dead, therefor to have a skeleton you have the remains of something dead or gone."There is a skeleton here" -talking about something that has gone and will never return but is not actually a skeleton.
The duration of The Skeleton Key is 1.73 hours.
The Skeleton Key.
The Skeleton Key was released on 08/12/2005.
The Skeleton Key was created on 2005-07-29.
That grass is deader than a skeleton!
The director of The Skeleton Key was Iain Softley.
6 people died on it
The ISBN of A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake is 1577314050.
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake was created in 1944.
The Skeleton Key grossed $92,256,918 worldwide.