For example:
- Life is a box of chocolates (Forrest Gump)
- The world's a stage (William Shakespeare)
- You are the sunshine of my life
- Love is a universal migraine
- John swelled and ruffled his plumage (implied metaphor)
- He inspected her with a vulture's eye (implied metaphor)
- The rugby player cradled the giant egg ball (implied metaphor)
A SIMILE a type of metaphor in which two unlike things are compared using "like" or "as."
For example:
- As light as a feather
- As heavy as an ox
- As sly as a fox
- As busy as a bee
- As proud as a peacock
- As clear as a bell
- As pure as snow
- As quick as lightning
- He eats like a pig.
- Her eyes are like the sun.
- She ran like the wind.
- The twins are like two peas in a pod
- Her hair was like gravy, running brown off her head and clumping up on her shoulders.
