Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff The Rule of Metaphor by Paul Ricœur The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I i.

Example of metaphor from a book. The example of the football team is an attempt to communicate the interpersonal dynamics of an author-publisher relationship Some authors use them for humor purposefully mining the absurdity of a torturously drawn-out metaphor for comedic effect. Love is a spirit all compact of fire - Venus and Adonis Shakespeare. In addition to literature metaphors are found throughout music including in song titles like Love is a Battlefield by Pat Benetar or You Aint Nothing but a Hound Dog by Elvis Presley.

Example Let me throw some light on this subject of philosophy This is an example of a complex metaphor where throw some light is used as metaphor to clear some point. Here are some more. One of the most well-known metaphors from literature is Shakespeares line All the worlds a stage from As You Like It.

Her lips are rose petals. In case of this example the hurt caused by Johns words is not compared to shards of glass but takes on the exact quality of glass and causes for the hurt in that way. A complex metaphor is one that is used to identify with some other entity by layering over a simple metaphor.

Books are a uniquely portable magic -- Stephen King. But we dont have to stop there. Six quotes turn into fifteen metaphors.

One of the first metaphors readers are introduced to is at the very beginning of the novel when Death speaks about what bothers him about his job. 5 Metaphor Examples in Literature. Weve also included an extended metaphor example which is a long metaphor sustained for an entire paragraph story or poem noted below.

On the other hand a simile makes it clear that they are not the same but similar. Given the amount of nuance that goes into it a metaphor example in a text can sometimes deserve as much interpretation as the text itself. How can one learn to speak in metaphors or pictures.