Examples of Metaphor

Metaphor - a figure of speech comparing two things without using the words "like" or "as".

Examples of Metaphors:
  • Her soft voice is music to our ears.
  • The ballerina is a graceful swan gliding onstage.
  • He has a heart of stone.
  • Toto is the black sheep in the family.
  • The speaker's voice was thunder to my ears.
  • The woman is a lioness looking for her lost child.
  • My mother is the sun of my life.
  • You are the sunshine of my life.
  • Life is a journey.
  • My life has been a sea of troubles.
  • School life was a breeze.
  • My mother is an angel.
  • My father is a rock.
  • Her eyes were shining stars.
  • Friendship is a sheltering tree.
  • The moon is a balloon.
  • Experience is a best teacher.
  • Julie' so sweet. She is a ray of sunshine.
  • He can eat anything - his stomach is a bottomless pit.
  • All the world's a stage.
  • She was a tigress when roused.
  • Purposes are destinations.
  • Difficulties are obstacles.
  • Achievements are landmarks.
  • You are the wind beneath my wings.
  • They have their exits and their entrances.
Examples from the Bible:
  • Then Jesus declared, 'I am the bread of life'.
  • Your eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is sound, your whole body is full of light; when it is not sound, your body is full of darkness.
  • For all the tables are full with vomit and filthiness, so there is no place clean. [Isaiah 28:8]
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