Metaphors-Similes

In a simile a comparison is made between two objects of different kinds which have however at least one point in common. The Simile is usually introduced by such words as like, as, or so.

Examples of Metaphors:

• As big as a elephant
• As black as a coal
• As blind as a bat
• As bold as brass
• As brave as a lion
• As bright as a button

Metaphors also offer figurative comparisons, but these are implied rather than introduced by like or as. See if you can identify the implied comparisons in these two sentences:

The farm was crouched on a bleak hillside, where its fields, fanged in flints, dropped steeply to the village of Howling a mile away.
Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Creative ways to use metaphors
as verbs:
The news that ignited his face snuffed out her smile.

as adjectives and adverbs
Her carnivorous pencil carved up Susan’s devotion.

as prepositional phrases
The doctor inspected the rash with a vulture’s eye.

as appositives or modifiers
On the sidewalk was yesterday’s paper, an ink-stained sponge.