Unlike a simile where two things are compared directly using like or as a metaphors comparison is more indirect usually made by stating something is something else.

Example of using metaphor in a sentence. The author uses disease as a metaphor for the corruption in society. For example a simile is a sentence that says X is like Y or X is as Y as. A frequent metaphor for one aspect of chaos theory is called the Butterfly Effect butterflies flapping their wings in the Amazon affect the weather in Chicago.

The first sentence depicts the use of simile whereas second one is a metaphor. He uses the metaphor of fire to represent hatred. He will not find a metaphor or an observation introduced merely for the purposes of ornament.

Whether it be synecdoche metaphor or metonymy there is still a figure. Here is an example of a Metaphor. Theyre not lies or errors though because metaphors are not intended to be interpreted literally.

Thus to use a metaphor time would apparently have deeper roots in reality than has nature. A metaphor is a sentence that says X is Y. First of all the highly self concious prose is atrocious florid metaphor piled upon metaphor.

Simile Our soldiers are the lion. Metaphor What is a metaphor. As with any metaphor the quality of the metaphor needs to be examined.

English Thats the metaphor the old metaphor. In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love. They also maintained that instead of being either real or substantial he was in fact the most flimsy and fictitious personage in the whole island.