Concise Dictionary of Metaphors and Similies

An Aladdin’s cave

A place full of unexpected wealth Storehouse, accumulation of material or artistic wealth

A burnt child dreads the fire

Experience brings caution.

A battle

Referring to something that may be very difficult.

One of the most prominent examples of a metaphor in English literature is the All the world’s a stage monologue from As You Like It:

In simpler terms, a metaphor compares two objects or things without using the words “like” or “as”.

Metaphor is a type of analogy and is closely related to other rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via association, comparison or resemblance including allegory, hyperbole, and simile.

Introduction Metaphors

What are Metaphors?

A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object.

Unless you know the underlying difference between the two, you will get completely befuddled.

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In order to understand a language, you must know the precise meaning of metaphor and simile in that language mean.

What led us to publish this? Metaphors & Similes appear in every language, and English has thousands of them.