Quick Quiz: Nouns Score: Change category, Flip order Reset Incorrect! Try again. Noun: dead metaphor Your choice? (informal) a person who is almost identical to another any of various plants of the genus Zigadenus having glaucous leaves and terminal racemes of mostly white flowers; all are poisonous   (Noun: death camas) a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., `he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word `snake')