This study presents a new approach to metaphorical paraphrase generation by masking literal tokens of literal sentences and unmasking them with metaphorical language models.

With this work we present a new metaphorical language generation perspective by transferring literal to metaphorical texts. The transfer concerns the replacement of tokens of different parts of speech, not only the common verb type Stowe et al. [2021], Chakrabarty et al. [2021], Yu and Wan [2019], but also nouns and adjectives (examples shown in Fig. 1).