Ordinary, non-metaphorical, exemplification is unproblematic. All of the instances of exemplification considered so far are non-metaphorical. The paint chip literally can exemplify the property of being teal since it literally is teal. The banana literally exemplifies bananahood since it really is bananoid.

Direptor & vexator vrbis. Cicer[o]. A spoy[l]er and sacker of a citie.

Hey there, baby bat. Now I look. It's Weevil, the tall, orange-eyelashed, snakebite-swilling goth.

Its aim is not merely to reunite all the dispersed classes of poetry, and to place poetry in touch with philosophy and rhetoric; it aims and ought to aim to mingle and combine poetry and prose, genius and criticism, artistic and natural poetry; to make poetry lively and social, to make life and society poetic; to poetize wit, to saturate all the forms of art with worthy materials of culture and enliven them by the sallies of humor.