The purpose of this article is to analyze how metaphor is currently treated in three different Portuguese language manuals. For a proper analysis, the theoretical basis includes not only the contributions of Silva (1997), Baptist (2003, 2004), and Bunzen (2005, 2007, 2014), as well as the PNLD’s manuals (2014), but also those concerning metaphor such as Black (1962, 1966, 1992, 1993), Lakoff and Johnson (2002 [1980]), Sardinha (2007), and Fossile (2011a, 2011b, 2013a, 2014). It must be highlighted that the results presented are not definitive. However, based on the study which has been carried out, it is pertinent to observe that the traditional metaphor as a linguistic ornament and related to rhetorical and poetical language is still present in the current of the Portuguese Language manuals.