Question

Which one is a Metaphor

1. A phrase where the words have no connection to their meaning. carries no meaning outside of context or prior experience with the phrase and cannot be translated.

2. Extreme exaggeration

3. words that have the same beginning sound together

4. A reference or mention of a person, event, statement, piece of art, history, myths, religion, or popular culture

5. A direct comparison that does not use like or as. Instead, it says something IS something else.

6. Giving human characteristics to non-human things.

Answer 1

5. A metaphor is a direct comparison that does NOT use the words like or as. It says that something is something else.

For example:

Her eyes are the ocean and you can get lost in their waves.

His speed is that of a cheetah.

She is the calm wind on a late Sunday evening.

He is the brain of a computer while he designs the new car.