Her tears were a river flowing down her cheeks.

Example of metaphor cat. I had walled the monster up within the tomb See in text The Black Cat The final imagethat of the dead wife and cat sealed behind the plaster wall and then broken freeserves as a metaphor for the entire story. The moon is like a mirror that reflects light from the sun. She was a shining star.

Mary invited a sea of troubles. Metaphor Examples for Kids. The use of blue gives the bag a figurative meaning.

The narrator begins to hate the second cat and came to look upon it with inutterable loathing and to flee silently from its odious as from the breath of a pestilence This simile makes the reader aware of just how much the narrator hates the cat and how much it plagues him. Its a great metaphor because the reader connects the idea of moonlight with creepiness darkness hollowness and fear. Metaphor Examples for Kids For example a river and tears arent very alike.

Her cats eyes were green fireballs. To make a long story short I let the cat out of the bag. One is a body of water in nature while the other can be produced by our eyes.

When you are talking to a cat lover you make up a metaphor about a cat nest in which for example one kitten is always left out. These examples support their claim that the primary function of conceptual metaphors is to. Both are a type of water that flows.

Youre the apple of my eye. First Occurrence COHA The cat out of the bag. Fog by Carl Sandburg.