Metaphors

Hello Guest

'Like going from crayons to perfume' would be a simile, unfortunately, not a metaphor.

It would be a very strange simile, moreover, as it's difficult to imagine a process that involved crayons at one end, and perfume at the other; unless you were thinking of 'crayons' = 'child at nursery school' and 'perfume' = 'sophisticated adolescent female'.

However, that doesn't mean you couldn't use the phrase. You could for example:

1. Give your opening sentence as above.
2. Explain why it's not a metaphor, but a simile.
3. Explain why it's a slightly strange simile.
4. Improve it step by step until you had a less strange simile for your 'educational growth'.
5. Change it into an appropriate metaphor with one last grandiloquent metamorphosis.

You would then find that not only had you illustrated your growth with a metaphor, you had also illustrated it by the very structure of your essay!

I'm curious by the way as to why your math class discusses metaphor.

('Pi in the Sky'?)

MrP