The grandfather clock became a death knell for her childhood.

Example of metaphor comparison. Consider the song Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas. Metaphor is also a writing tool that makes comparisons between two different things. The student sailed through his exams at the end of the semester.

Both are a type of water that flows. It can extend several lines or sentences or in the case of many songs or pieces of literature the entire work. Review a selection of extended metaphor examples.

Notice in this metaphor example that the word like has been added to it. The easiest way to identify a simile as opposed to a metaphor is to look for the words like or as. These are examples of metaphors.

An extended metaphor also known as a conceit is a comparison that is repeated several times in a work. When the words like or as comes before the metaphor it is called a simile instead. A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things without any use of like or as It can be a word phrase sentence or paragraph.

The student is being compared to a boat. One is a body of water in nature while the other can be produced by our eyes. He is going to fade off to sleep The metaphor above indicates that someone has drifted off to slumber or has gone to bed.

But unlike an analogy which is a direct comparison. Its easier to show the difference between the types of figures of speech by showing examples. Thus the best examples of simile include as or like such as.