Ok I have to write some metaphors about someone in my life and decided to write some on my son. However, I am not quite sure I am doing them correctly. Please help by telling me if I am on the right path, or even suggestions to fix what I am doing wrong. Thanks.
Here are the three I have written so far:
My son is like making homemade jam it takes time to process, but the result is well worth it.
My son’s knowledge is like the four seasons, it changes with time.
My son is my tree.
2007-02-03 05:57:51 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Ur mainly writing similes, that is, a comparison made by using the words "like" or "as"...a metaphor on the other hand uses non of those...Metaphors are comparisons that show how two things that are not alike in most ways are similar in one important way. The last example that u gave..."my son is a tree.." is an example of a metaphor.
Other examples may include:
1) Brian was a wall. This highlights Brian's strength
2)We would have had more pizza to eat if Tammy hadn’t been such a hog
Tammy ate like a hog...that part is the metaphor
2007-02-03 11:58:34 · answer #1 · answered by Bloo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For something to be a metaphor you must say it is something. You have to say things literally. Eg. my son is a tree.
If you use the words 'like' or 'as' in the sentence then you are writing a simile. So just make sure you are telling the reader that your son is something rather than what he is like and you will do fine!!
2007-02-03 06:16:44 · answer #2 · answered by Laura B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the 3rd one is a metaphor. The other 2 are similes (which use like or as). Get rid of the "like" in the 2nd and it'll be a metaphor.
2007-02-03 06:37:06 · answer #3 · answered by the Politics of Pikachu 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He seems from the window horrified on the faces that stare up at him like mask of an insane opera homestead the place the fat woman who might desire to have sang has been eaten via a weasel carried in the pocket of a tongueless demon in tattered clothing who sings a notice of destruction and spews from his mouth a scourge of deafness and blindness... however the guy in the window can nonetheless see and hear his laughter
2016-10-01 09:06:45 · answer #4 · answered by scoggin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u r not writing metaphore, ur writing similies
metaphores dont use the words 'like' or 'as'.
the last one is a perfect example!
2007-02-03 06:00:38 · answer #5 · answered by TheApocalypticOrgasm 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The LIKE makes them similies, not metaphors.
2007-02-03 06:06:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good.
2007-02-03 06:01:19 · answer #7 · answered by Lindsay Jane 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋