Metaphor or Simili please...?

Question

May someone please give me a metaphor or simili when like you feel as if you finally understand something...you finally felt the weight of the world off your shoulders cuz someone told u something n it just made life a lot better to understand...iu know this is alittle weird but can someone give me any metaphor or anything regarding this sort of feeling pleaseee?

Answer 1

About Simile and Metaphor

In poetry, it's sometimes the simile or metaphor which starts the poem off in the first place. The unexpected angle making a familiar thing look different, the observation that something looks, sounds, feels or behaves like something else, the juxtaposition of two unrelated experiences which suddenly have something in common: they may all leap out of the subconscious as simile or metaphor. So what's the difference between them?

SIMILE
When you say "the rugby ball was like a giant egg, which he held carefully while he ran" or "the cat leapt onto my shoulder and her claws, like thistle spines, pricked my skin painfully", you are using simile. 'Simile' literally means 'like' or 'the same as'.

METAPHOR

On the other hand, if you say "the rugby player cradled the giant egg ball" or "thistle spines pierced my skin when the cat leapt up", you are using metaphor. You are describing something as though it is actually something else. In one of my poems I call a dark cloud "a raven's wing". That's metaphor. I don't say the cloud is like a raven's wing. I wrote a poem called Silken Things which is full of metaphor because the things are none of them actually made of silk.

USING SIMILE & METAPHOR

There are no rules about when you should one and not the other. It depends on the effect you are trying to achieve, the way the poem scans, what comes before and after. But they are powerful tools in the poet's pen. They conjure up images, and are more instantly descriptive than a yard of prose.

If you think of the rough and tumble of a rugby football game, and then conjure up the image of the ball being a giant egg, I think you can immediately sense the delicacy and nimbleness of the runner and the awful smashing of the egg at touch.

If you've ever trodden on a thistle with a bare foot, you can immediately sense the pain of the cat's claws.

Writers use simile and metaphor in prose too, to bring life and richness to what they have to say.

Answer 2

Something along the lines of...

hearing or figuring out the answer to a hard riddle

placing down the last piece of a [complex] puzzle

being lost, and a heavy fog lifts and the path lies clearly ahead

hope that helped :]

Answer 3

simile is a comparison between two or more things, ex:

Your mouth is like a red rose.

metaphor is when you call one thing by another name, ex:

Your mouth is a red rose.

Answer 4

"Clear as a bell" means "I understand completely"-

"I see the light"- means you get it- there is really no physical light but the light of knowledge.
"dark as night"- that is difficult to understand

Answer 5

.eg. she is as red as a rose. this is a simili. this means that she is not a rose but looks like a rose.