The wine cup is the little silver well where truth, if truth there be , doth dwell . Get a man drunk if you want to know what he's really like. Shakespeare is picturing wine being served in a silver cup. well is metaphoric for anything deep

Anon, Is this an order?. Or are you requesting help? Here are a few helpful hints: Learn to use the word "please". Capitalize the proper places. Your article had quite a collection of "big words" which were

No, you underline the words that you think are metaphors, and then we will check your effort.

Hello! I am a university student from Russia. We have to write quite a lot of essays as part of our English course. However, every term we get a new teacher, this is just how the system works, and all teachers are quite different in how they

What is a metaphor?Can you give me an example of one in the poem "Blackberry Picking" By semus Heaney?

And smiles are nice, but sure to notice that the spelling is ' similes ', Anon.

It is a metaphor -- two metaphors, in fact. (Note the spelling metaphor .) It doesn't make sense out of context, of course, but in the right context it could be meaningful. CJ

Shanoorsa, I would say the second sentence is perfectly acceptable grammatically and may even be preferred contextually. Have a look at Gleb's excellent comment on narrative structure and the effect of putting the active ingredient of the

It's a metaphor. You may create your own as long as it's common knowledge. Metaphors are packed with paragraphs: They are a creative and economical way to say more with less.

I wonder why somebody that does not use punctuation, and believes "wanna" is a word, might be concerned with such a distinction? I wonder why somebody would open a thread that is nearly 5 years old only to make a derogatory comment