What is a Metaphor?

Question

Examples please.

Answer 1

Extension of a word's meaning on the basis of similarity is known as metaphoric extension.

Here's a fascinating question that can never be asked scientifically: What is the nature of consciousness? Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà-vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.

Metaphor and simile are two of the best known tropes and are often mentioned together as examples of "RHETORICAL" figures. (I studied "Logic & Rhetoric" in University, under my minor of "Philosophy".)

Metaphor and simile are both terms that describe a comparison.

The only difference between a "metaphor" and a 'simile' is that a simile makes the comparison ONLY by using weak words ... "like" or "as."

Metaphors are bold comparisons. Like, "You ARE ****"!!!

The 10 pt answer is...
"A metaphor is like a BOLD simile." (but it is an over-simplification, as definitions usually are!)

Unfortunately, if you never heard of a SIMILE, this definition doesn't take you very far in understanding metaphor.

Sorry: This definition is actually an example of a simile...
"A metaphor is like a simile." is not original. But I added BOLD as a useful qualifier! So my version is "A metaphor is like a BOLD simile."

"A metaphor is like a simile", is the second last quote on THIS fun web page, linked here...
http://jpetrie.myweb.uga.edu/wright.html

But, admit it, finding that needle in a haystack should be worth 10 points!!!

That entire page, by the way, is ALL a whole lot of fun to read! (If you have some time)

There are MANY kinds of metaphors, like "mixed metaphors" (mis-use of metaphores generaly), and "compound" or "loose metaphor" (one that catches the mind with several points of similarity).

What is a "dead metaphor"?

Few of us have horses today, but the English vernacular is riddled with equine metaphors: "holding the reins of power", "trot it out", "take the bit between one's teeth", "be saddled with", "put him through his paces", "ride roughshod over", "flogging a dead horse", "look a gift horse in the mouth", "long in the tooth", etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_metaphor

An "active metaphor" is one which, by contrast to a dead metaphor, is noticeable as a metaphor. Example: "You are my sun."

Answer 2

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
This well known quotation is a good example of a metaphor. In this example, "the world" is compared to a stage, the aim being to describe the world by taking well-known attributes from the stage. In this case, the world is the tenor and the stage is the vehicle. "Men and women" are a secondary tenor and "players" is the vehicle for this secondary tenor.

Answer 3

A meta is for filling the space between a mini and a maxi. LOL

Actually a Metaphor is like a parable, something that's said but has a parallel meaning that is being illustrated by the story or line of Metaphor..

BB,
Raji the Green Witch

Answer 4

In metaphor comparrison is made between 2 objects of different kind but do not use words as - like or so

example - - - he was a lion in the fight

this means the man fought like a lion

Answer 5

Metaphor is equating one thing to another. The room is an oven. The world is a stage. Comparisons that use "like" or "as" are not metaphors. He drinks like a fish. Those are similes.

Answer 6

A metaphor ia a DIRECT comparison.

Like,
He was a lion in the battle field.

A Simile is a metaphor which uses " LIKE " and " AS ".
For example :

He was LIKE a lion in the battle field.

Answer 7

Eg: Your eyes are like the sun, bright and shining.
OR Your eyes are as beautiful as crystals.

I suck at metaphors but they usually compare something with something else, mostly written in this way
___ like___
as___as___
as____

the 'like' can be omitted in some situations.

Answer 8

its like when you use a human characteristic for something that is not alive (meaning like the wind).

the leaves danced in the wind.

danced is the metaphor cos leaves cant acctually dance but humans can.

Jenn xox

Answer 9

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Answer 10

When you are comparing 2 things using, is or, are.
ex. Your eyes are the blue ocean.