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ULKAR KARIMLI 306A

METAPHOR & SIMILE

WHAT IS METAPHOR?

Metaphor compares one item with another by saying that it is the other item.

Eg: Your room is a pigsty.

( Meaning: your room is so dirty and smelly that it is like a pigsty)

The comparison is made without the use of like or as.

PURPOSE OF METAPHOR:

Metaphors make our writing more interesting by making us look at things from a different light.

Eg: my brother is a pain in the neck

(Meaning: my brother gives me a lot of trouble)

EXAMPLES

I am a rainbow

"I am a rainbow" is an example of metaphor because it is comparing two nouns, a person, and a rainbow, but does not use “like” or “as”.

Her laugther is a gentle song.

My brother is a flag pole.

He has the courage of a lion.

You are the sun in my sky.

You are the light in my life.

His heart is ice cold.

The lake is a mirror of beauty.

Her eyes are jewels sparkling in the sky.

PROVERBS, EXPRESSIONS

A snake in the grass gizli düşmən

To make mountains out of molehills şişirtmək

To take a bee line kəsə yol ilə getmək

The homework was a breeze

The idea was difficult to swallow

My dad was boiling mad.

Her dog, Jake was the sunshineof her life.

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METAPHOR IN LITERATURE

All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances;

As You Like It— William Shakespeare, As You Like It

This quote is a metaphor because the world is not literally astage. By figuratively asserting that the world is a stage,Shakespeare uses the points of comparison between the worldand a stage to convey how the world works and the lives of thepeople within it.

WHAT IS SIMILE ?

Simile is a comparison between two unlike things that have something in common.

Eg. His skin was cold as ice.

He was slow like a snail.

A simile always uses the words like or as to make a comparison.

PURPOSE OF SIMILE

Authors use simile to explain, express emotion, and to make their writing more vivid and entertaining

Sweet as a honeybee

As hungry as a bear

As stubborn as a mule

Like a rolling stone

Like a bird up in the sky

EXAMPLES

SIMILES OFTEN MAKE USE OF IRONY OR

SARCASM. IN SUCH CASES THEY MAY EVEN MEAN

THE OPPOSITE OF THE ADJECTIVE USED.

LOOK AT THESE EXAMPLES:

His explanation was as clear as mud. (not clear at all since mud is opaque)

The film was about as interesting as watching a copy of Windows download.(long and boring)

Watching the show was like watching paint dry. (very boring)

SIMILES ARE OFTEN FOUND IN POETRY AND

OTHER LITERATURE.

HERE ARE A FEW EXAMPLES:

Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh - Wilfred Owen

Death has many times invited me: it was like the salt invisible in the waves - Pablo Neruda

Guiltless forever, like a tree - Robert Browning

Yellow butterflies flickered along the shade like flecks of sun - William Faulkner

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN METAPHOR & SIMILE

The terms metaphor and simile are slung around as if they meant exactly the same thing.

A simile is a metaphor, but not all metaphors are similes.

Eg:

He is a heart of stone. (metaphor)

His heart is as hard as stone. (simile)

He is a couch potato. (metaphor)

He is like a couch potato. (simile)

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN METAPHOR & SIMILE

You are my sunshine.(metaphor)

Your eyes are like the sun.(simile)