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Examples:
Analogy: People may treat the world as their stage
Similes: are constrained in that the word 'like' or 'as' is explicitly
used.
Similes: The world is like a stage, he's strong as a bear, he's as big as
a mountain, she's as dark as the night, she's fresh as the morning
dew,
Metaphors basically say 'A is B', unlike similes which say 'A is like
B' and analogies which offer a vaguer linkage between A and B.
This gives a stronger association between A and B in metaphor. B is
effectively overlaid and A, and everything about B is attributed to A.
Thus A effectively becomes B.
Metaphors: All the world's a stage, I am the good shepherd, I am the
Son of God, I am the lamb of God, you are the sun of my life, you
are the air that I breathe, she's a black crow,
15.3 List of strong metaphors
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A heart of stone (from Rebecca)
He has the heart of a lion
You are the sun in my sky
You are the light in my life
She is my East and my West, my compass.
You had better pull your socks up
Life is a mere dream, a fleeting shadow on a cloudy day.
Love is a lemon - either bitter of sweet (from Scott)
Drowning in the sea
Jumping for joy
Rolling in dough
Apple of my eye

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