If an author describes monsoon raining as " the sky is crying", here author is explaining rain by using metaphor as " the sky is crying."
A few more examples are:
"Your eyes are the sun in my life."
"Your smile brightens the entire room."
"The cat was a ball of fluffiness."
It means that the object or person is described as something else without using the words 'like' or 'as.'
'My love is a red red rose' is a metaphor
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He is a lion.He's a fat cow.
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Old is like an owl but with even better intelligence. this is not a metaphor but a simile. A metaphor for old in a sentence would be
I am a mistake is not an example of a metaphor; I am a mistake means I am the product of a mistake.
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The world is a stage and we are all actors playing our parts.
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