What is the difference between metaphors and a simile?

Answer 1

A SIMILE is a phrase that describes something in comparison to the characteristics of something else, using the words as or like.

Examples: Her hands were as cold as ice. His beard was like sandpaper.

A METAPHOR directly compares two things, which may be quite different, because one has a characteristic that is similar to the other.

Examples: All the world is a stage. The inside of the car was a furnace. His memory of the event was foggy.

Sometimes metaphors compare actions and adjectives by their effect.

Examples : He was boiling mad. You are the sunshine of my life. The truth was hard to swallow.

In many cases, a metaphor is an idiomatic expression when it suggests an improbable action, e.g It was raining cats and dogs. He was rolling in dough.

Answer 2

uses comparison words, such as "like" and "as." APEX

Answer 3

A SIMILE is a phrase that describes something in comparison to the characteristics of something else, using the words as or like.

Examples:

Her hands were as cold as ice.

His beard was like sandpaper.

He is as sneaky as a weasel.

Her teeth are like pearls.

A METAPHOR directly compares two things, which may be quite different, because one has a characteristic that is similar to the other.

Examples:

All the world is a stage.

The inside of the car was a furnace.

His memory of the event was foggy.

That guy is such a snake in the grass.

Her eyes were glowing coals.

That linebacker is a mountain.

Sometimes metaphors compare actions and adjectives by their effect.

Examples : He was boiling mad. You are the sunshine of my life. The truth was hard to swallow.

In many cases, a metaphor is an idiomatic expression when it suggests an improbable action, e.g

It was raining cats and dogs.

He was rolling in dough.

Now we will all be in hot water.

While all similes are metaphors, not all metaphors are similes.

A metaphor is a device in writing that confers a similarity of meaning to one word or phrase with another, such as "his stormy mood darkened everyone's good time" . A simile is a subset of the metaphor concept but is quite obvious about it using "like" or "as" in the comparison: "life is like a box of chocolates".

Answer 4

simile: A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as.

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".

Answer 5

A simile is a figure of speech in which the speaker uses "like" or "as" to describe something.

For example: "She was as red as a rose."

Or, "I am free like a butterfly."

A metaphor is a figure of speech in which the speaker does not use "like" or "as" to describe something.

For example: "He is a sneaky snake."

Answer 6

A similie compares using like or as (She was as pretty as a flower)

A metaphor compares without like or as (The fog crept in on little cat feet)