Metaphors and Similies

Metaphor

/mɛtəfə/

A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn’t literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison. - Grammarly

An expression, often found in literature, that describes a person or object by referring to something that is considered to have similar characteristics to that person or object. - Cambridge Dictionary

A metaphor is an imaginative way of describing something by referring to something else which is the same in a particular way. For example, if you want to say that someone is very shy and frightened of things, you might say that they are a mouse. - Collins Dictionary

A word or phrase that means one thing and is used for referring to another thing in order to emphasize their similar qualities. - Macmillan Dictionary

No matter how many different descriptions or definitions this word may have it will stay the same. The word metaphor, in my definition, means to describe yourself or someone else by saying they are something thing else. Similies are similar to metaphors but instead of saying you are something else, similies refer to that someone being like something else

Metaphors Examples

She danced, the grass under her feet was her stage and the flowers that laid at her feet watched and waved with anticipation. The girl's arms were leaves that flew in the wind, her legs wound around her audience of flowers and trees, her song harmonised with the animals that chittered and tweeted into the wind. She was the wind that she breathed, she was the nature she danced with.

The blood trickled and fell mixing with the rain that trickled onto her face. He felt his heart drop and his own tears with them. They had danced across the winds together, they had leapt through the clouds and littered rain across the world. 

Similies

ˈ/sɪmɪli/

A simile is a phrase that uses a comparison to describe. - Grammarly

An expression comparing one thing with another, always including the words "as" or "like". - Cambridge Dictionary

A simile is an expression which describes a person or thing as being similar to someone or something else. - Collins Dictionary

A phrase that describes something by comparing it to something else using the word ‘like’ or ‘as’. - Macmillan Dictionary

A simile is used to describe something using comparisons such as 'like' or 'as' instead of directly calling something something else like in the case of a metaphor.

Similies Examples

She is like the moon, you could stare for hours and get lost in every detail, in every rigid edge she has, every perfect scar in her skin, everything she is perfect like the forest of words she grows with every sentence she speaks, every mumbled word she mutters. She's as bright as the sun, yet as silently beautiful as the stars that shine in the night.

Like an open book, it was a perfectly readable situation, except Georgey couldn't read words, much less read a room. Tristan could've torn a room up in anger or cried a river and Georgey could've simply asked if he was okay. Georgey was as dumb as a rock.