http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aExamples+of+Metaphors+tag%3aMarriageSearch results for 'tag:Examples of Metaphors tag:Marriage' matching tags 'Examples of Metaphors' and 'Marriage'en-USCSMOD (Build: 3256.36449)http://www.englishforums.com/English/MetaphorVsSimile/nbrm/post.htm#64170Thu, 30 Dec 2004 01:45:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:64170Mister Micawber<br />Hi Serdar, <br /> <br />Here are three definitions of 'METAPHOR': <br /> <br />A comparison that is made literally, either by a verb (for example, John Keats' "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" from his "Ode on a Grecian Urn") or, less obviously, by a combination of adjective and noun, noun and verb, etc. (for example, Shakespeare's sonnet on the "the marriage of true minds"), but in any case without pointing out a similarity by using words such as "as," "like," or "than." <br /> <br />A figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another, or by substituting a more descriptive word for the more common or usual word that would be expected. Some examples of metaphors: the world's a stage, he was a lion in battle, drowning in debt, and a sea of troubles. <br /> <br />A figure of speech that expresses an idea through the image of another object. Metaphors suggest the essence of the first object by identifying it with certain qualities of the second object. An example is "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?/ It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Here, Juliet, the first object, is identified with qualities of the second object, the sun. <br /> <br /> <br />And three definitions of 'SIMILE': <br /> <br />A direct comparison between two things essentially unlike each other, but resembling each other in at least one way, usually using the words 'like' or 'as'. <br /> <br />A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two essentially unlike things, usually using 'like', 'as' or 'than', as in Burns', "O, my luve's like A Red, Red Rose" or Shelley's "As still as a brooding dove," in "The Cloud." <br /> <br />A figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two things by using words such as 'like', 'as', 'than', 'appears', and 'seems'. The effectiveness of the simile is created by the differences between the two things compared, and it is the job of the simile itself to suggest the important ways in which the two are similar. <br /> <br /> <br />