summer's blood red ones inked up Our hands were peppered fungus, glutting on our cache.

no it's not a metaphor - i'm doing this in English at the moment, example: your love is a rose. (red rose = symbol of love) if someone said - your love is like smoke it's a metaphor because they are telling you that smoke

is this a metaphor? i saw herbarefoot baby toenails all painted pale pale pink,like little pink seashells, and she smells pinklike babies do.

He was drowned in the raging torrent. His speech was drowned by the rabble. His plea was drowned in/by the clatter of hooves. It seems possible to me that we're confusing "drowned" as a metaphor with " drowned out " as an

Winter Analysis This poem by Shakespeare is divided in two stanzas with nine lines each. The meaning of the words Icicle: thin point stick of ice that hangs down from something such as a roof. : name of person. Shepherd:

Hi Elda and Rowaa, This piece of information on Preposition was written by Knoff , one of the volunteer teahers at this forum. I apologize I couldn't locate this specific link but I copied it down last week. Please see the below in blue.

Hello Denying women opportunities because of their capacity to reproduce or because some people "have a problem" with powerful women raises the red flag of sexism . The glass ceiling metaphor now falls short in multiple respects.

It seems to me that in just a few months of examining the PDB (president's daily brief) and other highly sensitive documents that can determine the nation's safety, President Obama has simply been dealt a reality check : On some occasions,

" The Thin Veneer of Civilization The big lesson of Katrina is not about the incompetence of the Bush administration, the scandalous neglect of poor black people in the United States or our unpreparedness for major natural disasters,

Hello BlueDevil and welcome to the forum. I know that the expression "implied metaphor' is used by some people, but I don't like it because: A simile is an explicit parallel - She came into the room like a ship in full sail . A