What are some inspiring metaphors?

Example Metaphors

• Chipping away at the stone.
• Expedition.
• Eye of the tiger.
• Grab the bull by the horns.
• Mission.
• Your ship has come in.
• Your ship is sailing and you’re on it.

What is a metaphor for memories?

Other metaphors for memory: lines in a leaf, a match connecting fire to fire, writing in the sand, file cabinets, boxes, a fog lifting, a crumpled piece of paper slowly unfolding, a library, a phoenix rising from the ash, knots in a string of beads. Really, metaphors are all we have to describe memory.

What is a metaphor for time?

Time is often represented internally with the metaphor of a line. We literally see a time stretching out into the future, along which we place the events of our life. The line may be straight or curved. It may be one, two or three-dimensional.

What Can memories be compared to?

Two of the most famous early psychologists, William James and Sigmund Freud, proposed that memory could be compared to a house, with specific memories likened to objects in the house.

What is a simile for memories?

Memory is like a purse, if it be overfull that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Our memory is like a sieve, the holes of which in time get larger and larger; the older we get, the quicker anything intrusted to it slips from the memory, whereas what was fixed fast in it in early days is there still.

Is brave as a lion a metaphor?

Metaphors are different to similes, as they do not involve using the words ‘as’ or ‘like’ to compare two things. Notice the difference in the example below: The girl is as brave as a lion (simile). The girl has the heart of a lion (metaphor).

Is time flies by a metaphor?

“Time flies” is a metaphor. “Time” is being compared to the act of flying by quickly, which is not to be taken by its literal…

What are the most common metaphors?

By far the most common metaphors used in the speech are those of nature. Dr. King uses metaphors of mountains, valleys, deserts, oases, stones, solid rocks, quicksand, islands, oceans, waters, streams, wind, whirlwinds, and storms.

Can You List 10 examples of metaphors?

Comparing Animals and Humans. Comparing humans and animals is a common type of metaphor.

Using Metaphor to Compare Weather and Food. Have you ever heard anyone say that “the fog was pea soup?” We all generally know that pea soup does not form

Water and Mirrors.

Animals and Instrument.

Temperature Metaphors.

The Nose Knows.

Strength and Size.

What are some metaphor examples?

Examples of metaphors include the concept of the “black sheep of the family” and the phrase “You are my sunshine.” A metaphor is a comparison between two things that share common characteristics. Saying that someone is the “black sheep of the family” is not a literal description.

What are some metaphor words?

Life is a race and we never realise that we are running towards nothing!

He is the light of my life.

For this whole year,this room has become my prison.

Love is a fine wine!

My heart’s a stereo and it beats for you!

She is happy as a clam.

My mind becomes an ocean with calm waves when I meditate.

Yesterday was a roller-coaster!

She was fit as a fiddle!

Doesn’t matter,he is an old flame!