 Clear and simple prose—”just the facts, please”—can be boring, tedious and dull. We liven up our writing with figures of speech. Metaphor in particular makes speech more interesting and insightful by engaging our imagination (Lepore &amp; Stone 2015: Ch. 10). In the process, we sacrifice perspicuity (violating Manner). We sometimes “embellish” a narration to make it more interesting (violating Quality) and delete boring or ugly details even when they are important (violating Quantity).