Can somebody please help explain to me a metaphor...? I have had it explained to me so many times and I understand what it means, as in, "The rain sang me to sleep" where as rain cannot really sing so it is a metaphor, but it tricks me and gets difficult when I am asked to point out metaphors in text... I need someone who can help me learn how to...

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joclyn16 · Answer

Ok

joclyn16 · Answer

A metaphor is a figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect, thus highlighting the similarities between the two.

anonymous · Answer

I know what it means and how to use it, I can form a metaphor, but it is difficult to point one out in a passage.

anonymous · Answer

i don't know i usually tell them out by looking at the one thing that sound completely like a fantasy and would only happen as an imagination ._.

anonymous · Answer

better take it as more of a visual description of the word or thought.

willt · Answer

But you need to remember that a metaphor DOESN'T use the words "like" or "as", otherwise it is a simile.

candycove · Answer

Metaphors<3