The dogs bed is a marshmallow it looks so comfortable.

Example of verb metaphor. Dianne St Clair Examples. The slashes indicate line breaks. 60 examples of simile.

In the sun rising written by John Donne we can see another example of metaphor being used in the line busy old fool you unruly sun I carry your heart with me written by E E Cummings shows a good example of metaphor in the line you are what a moon means and what a sun sings is you. Take a look at the example of a metaphor in the speech bubble. Metaphor Examples for Advanced Readers.

The light flows into the bowl of the midnight sky violet amber and rose. This is the metaphor. In the second example the writer compares the sun to a ball of fire.

Simile Our soldiers are the lion. Metaphors without the verb be. She watched in horror as the dead bird floated down from the sky.

John is the star of his family. The answer is that they are both soft. In this example the dogs bed is referred to as a marshmallow.

When I think about how my light runs out John Milton. My father is an iron man. Black Boy by Richard Wright I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo and if an echo sounded no matter how faintly I would send other wordsto create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all to keep alive in our hearts a sense of the inexpressibly human.