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Question: Be very careful not to get simile mixed up with metaphor.

A simile is a comparison (using 'as' or 'like'):
They look LIKE two peas in a pod.

A metaphor is a definition:
They ARE two peas in a pod.

Ok, here goes:

He is the apple of my eye.

They are two peas in a pod.

It is a real pea-souper

BTW 'It is a real pea-souper' refers to smog, originally from Victorian London where the smoke from coal fires mixed with fog. SMoke + fOG = SMOG.
It was sometimes so thick it was said to look like pea-soup.


The 'carrot and stick' method failed.
(reward and punishment eg give a donkey a carrot if it walks in the right direction, hit it with a stick if it doesn't......I don't approve, just explaining).
'The carrot and the stick' is really an idiom, but you could probably get away with it as a metaphor.

The wind was so cold, his nose turned into a red tomato.

He was a tomato can boxer.

From wikipedia:
In the context of American boxing or mixed martial arts, a tomato can is a boxer with poor or diminished skills who may be considered an easy opponent to defeat, or a "guaranteed win." Fights with Tomato cans can be arranged to inflate the win total of a professional fighter.
(being from the UK I had never actually heard of this one before).

The atom bomb exploded in a mushroom cloud of deadly radioactive dust.

Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
used by George Bush's speechwriter (Michael Gerson) in October 2002 about the need to go to war in Iraq.
I think the 'smoking gun' part is really the metaphor but I bet not many people come up with this one!

ref: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/...

He was so embarressed he turned into a beetroot
(BTW a simile would be: he was as red as a beetroot)

and to finish........
Why did the pixie move out of the toadstool?
Because there wasn't mushroom.
(mushroom = much room)
Oh, my sides are splitting.
not a metaphor, just a c**p joke.


Answers: Be very careful not to get simile mixed up with metaphor.

A simile is a comparison (using 'as' or 'like'):
They look LIKE two peas in a pod.

A metaphor is a definition:
They ARE two peas in a pod.

Ok, here goes:

He is the apple of my eye.

They are two peas in a pod.

It is a real pea-souper

BTW 'It is a real pea-souper' refers to smog, originally from Victorian London where the smoke from coal fires mixed with fog. SMoke + fOG = SMOG.
It was sometimes so thick it was said to look like pea-soup.


The 'carrot and stick' method failed.
(reward and punishment eg give a donkey a carrot if it walks in the right direction, hit it with a stick if it doesn't......I don't approve, just explaining).
'The carrot and the stick' is really an idiom, but you could probably get away with it as a metaphor.

The wind was so cold, his nose turned into a red tomato.

He was a tomato can boxer.

From wikipedia:
In the context of American boxing or mixed martial arts, a tomato can is a boxer with poor or diminished skills who may be considered an easy opponent to defeat, or a "guaranteed win." Fights with Tomato cans can be arranged to inflate the win total of a professional fighter.
(being from the UK I had never actually heard of this one before).

The atom bomb exploded in a mushroom cloud of deadly radioactive dust.

Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
used by George Bush's speechwriter (Michael Gerson) in October 2002 about the need to go to war in Iraq.
I think the 'smoking gun' part is really the metaphor but I bet not many people come up with this one!

ref: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/...

He was so embarressed he turned into a beetroot
(BTW a simile would be: he was as red as a beetroot)

and to finish........
Why did the pixie move out of the toadstool?
Because there wasn't mushroom.
(mushroom = much room)
Oh, my sides are splitting.
not a metaphor, just a c**p joke.

She's the apple of his eye.
Their twins are like two peas in a pod.
The weather is like pea soup.

Here are some suggestions. Hope this helps.





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