no one would ever find me there, either,

has anyone else thought the term "metaphor" is being overused rn? i feel like ive been seeing it a lot to refer to things that better fit "allegory" bc they represent something else but also are still literally happening within the text. like someone fell in a fic and the author said "the falling is a metaphor" bc it represented mental health but also it was how he got out of a situation and he broke actual bones when he landed and other characters found him etc, so it did actually happen. or i've heard people say lotr is a metaphor for wwii, but it's not like the entire series is actually referring to the war, it's just potentially an underlying layer, ie allegory. which is basic figurative language but everyone's defaulting to metaphor lol