ADU/AUL 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)
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”.
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
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)