Take these famous metaphor examples: All the worlds a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances. America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
To write beautifully unique and effective metaphors, youll need to dig deep into your own experience. Think about the specific feeling or image youre trying to portray, then think about when youve felt or recognised that feeling or image most acutely. Look out for metaphors in the books you read.
LOVE-AS-NATURAL-FORCE METAPHOR - love is represented as a storm, flood, or wind, thus highlighting the aspects of the intensity of love and the lack of control of those in love. She swept me off my feet. Waves of passion came over him. She was carried away by love.
A creative metaphor is an original comparison that calls attention to itself as a figure of speech. It is a call to change ones language and ones life, rather than a proposal about how to systematize them (Metaphor as the Growing Point of Language, 1991).
The most frequently stated metaphors for school by students were school as family, home, home for education, birds nest, warm home, parents, and so forth. She concluded that school was perceived as a care-giving place which transmits knowledge, cultivates young people, and enlightens people.
For instance, according to Kovecses (1991), there are many conceptual metaphors for happiness in English but three of them have been recognized as major metaphors: HAPPINESS IS UP Im feeling up, Im walking on air, HAPPINESS IS LIGHT She brightened up, HAPPINESS IS A FLUID IN A CONTAINER Hes bursting with joy