can somebody please explain methaphors for me?

Question

if possible please give examples

Answer 1

"Life is a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get."

"The world is a stage."
"Life's a garden. Dig it."


comparing two unlike things without the use of as or like.

Answer 2

"A metaphor is another kind of comparison. It is actually a condensed simile, for it omits "as" or "like." A metaphor establishes a relationship at once; it leaves more to the imagination. It is a shortcut to the meaning; it sets two unlike things side by side and makes us see the likeness between them. When Robert Burns wrote "My love is like a red, red rose" he used a simile. When Robert Herrick wrote "You are a tulip" he used a metaphor. Emily Dickinson used comparison with great originality. She mixed similes and metaphors superbly in such poems as "A Book," "Indian Summer," and "A Cemetery." One of the Poems in her group ("A Book") illustrates another device -Of poetry: association - a connection of ideas. The first two lines of "A Book" compare poetry to a ship; the next two to a horse. But Emily Dickinson thought that the words "ship" and "horse" were too commonplace. The ship became a "frigate," a beautiful full-sailed vessel of romance; and the everyday "horse," the plodding beast of the field and puller of wagons, became instead a "courser," a swift and spirited steed, an adventurous creature whose hoofs beat out a brisk rhythm, "prancing" - like a page of inspired poetry.

Thus, because of comparison and association, familiar objects become strange and glamorous. It might be said that a Poet is a man who sees resemblances in all things. "

Here is a nice activity:
"To learn something new about anything that's familiar, we need to see it differently, and nothing opens the eyes like a metaphor. A metaphor is an implied comparison of two things, ideas, or states of mind that may not literally have much in common. A good metaphor is a comparison that hadn't occurred to us before.
Thousands of metaphors form the stuff of everyday talk: "Chill out." "He thinks he's hot stuff." "She made a mountain out of a molehill." "That expression is dead as a a doornail." Most of these are little more than corpses of deceased metaphors, otherwise known as cliches. We use old metaphors because they are so handy, but, of course, they have no force and little explanatory value. (What, after all, is a doornail?) George Orwell recommended never using a metaphor that we are used to seeing in print (to which should be added, "that we are used to hearing on the air").

In the following is a method that can help you generate new metaphors. First, make three lists, one of abstractions followed by the word "is," another of specific things, and a third of adjective phrases:

List I List II
1. Love is 1. a wet hound dog
2. Death is 2. a popular song
3. Education is 3. a landfill
4. Knowledge is 4. a black hole
5. Religion is 5. a new Corvette
6. Faith is 6. a frozen TV dinner
7. Power is 7. a circling vulture
8. Sleep is 8. an ancient temple
9. Work is 9. a melting popsicle
10. Play is 10. a festering wound

List III
1. waiting for its time.
2. old to the wise, new to the foolish.
3. silly to those who think, serious to those who feel.
4. needed only by the poor in spirit.
5. unused by all but the rich.
6. unused by all but the poor.
7. quietly known, unquietly felt.
8. strange in twilight, common in daylight.
9. barbarous to the truly civilized.
10. productive only of couch-patatoes.

Next, choose any three-digit number. Start with the phrase from List I that corresponds to the first digit, and connect it to the phrase in List II that corresponds to the second digit and the phrase in List III that corresponds to the third. Connect the sentences by BLOCKING and COPYING the selected phrase; place the selected phrases after the example given below. Then, read the resulting sentence.

Example: The number 919 yields "Work is a wet hound dog, barbarous to the truly civilized."
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Answer 3

1. One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
2. A comparison between two or more seemingly unrelated subjects.

Answer 4

A comparision of 2 unlike thing without using like or as, but is, are, were, or was.
the bear is a mountain.
my sister's friends are a group of monster.
her eyes are a pool of love.
she is a mean fire breathing dragon.

Answer 5

similes compare things using like or as. Metaphors do the same thing but without 'like' or 'as'. Example, You are a flower whose blossoming brings joy.

Answer 6

its like a simile except without like or as

raining cats and dogs

thats a metaphor...the simile of that is

its raining LIKE cats and dogs