Then he came into the business part of the city, where the streets were sewers of inky blackness, with horses sleeping and plunging, and women and children flying across in panic-stricken droves.
"Time is a thief in the night." "The world is a stage and we are all actors." "Life is a journey with many twists and turns." The second quotation, "The world is a stage and we are all actors," contains a metaphor.
You can find metaphor worksheets online on educational websites, such as Teachers Pay Teachers, Education.com, or Super Teacher Worksheets. You can also create your own metaphor worksheets by selecting passages or sentences from literature or poetry and asking students to identify the metaphors used.
A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two unrelated things without using "like" or "as." For example, "He drowned in a sea of grief."
She lived in a sea of grief -apex (:
This sentence contains personification, as it gives human-like qualities (the ability to groan) to the inanimate objects (rocks).
Of the disinherited of life, for whom there is no respite and no deliverance, to whom the world is a prison, a dungeon of torture, a tomb!
The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard.
The line "My love is such that Rivers cannot quench" contains a metaphor as it compares her love for her husband to an unquenchable river, emphasizing its depth and intensity.
a simile or metaphor
The sentence "He looked as if he were fifteen or sixteen." contains a metaphor, comparing the boy's appearance to his actual age while implying he looks older.
I'm not sure which excerpt you are referring to. Can you provide the specific text so I can identify the line containing a metaphor?
"Time is a thief in the night." "The world is a stage and we are all actors." "Life is a journey with many twists and turns." The second quotation, "The world is a stage and we are all actors," contains a metaphor.
a simile or metaphor
a simile or metaphor
a simile or metaphor
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One example of metaphor from "Great Expectations" is in Chapter 59, where Pip describes his heart as a "disease." This metaphor highlights the emotional turmoil and suffering that Pip is experiencing.