The mission of colorwize metaphor and Simile Center is to provide thousands of free metaphor and simile examples to schools around the world.
New metaphor examples and simile examples are added once a month.
Use our metaphors and similes when you write your next poem, poetry or song.
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90% of the metaphors contained in this site are very good examples of metaphors.
The other 10% are ornate or grandiloquent expressions; highly embellished: and flowery speech.
This site contains more metaphors than similes.
metaphor; A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in “a sea of troubles” or “All the world's a stage” (Shakespeare).
One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol: “Hollywood has always been an irresistible, prefabricated metaphor for the crass, the materialistic, the shallow, and the craven” (Neal Gabler).
simile; A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as, as in “How like the winter hath my absence been” or “So are you to my thoughts as food to life” (Shakespeare).
