Examples of Metaphors

A comparison between two "unlike" things without using the word "like" or the word "as."

The detective listened to her tales with a wooden face.

John's answer to the problem was just a Band-Aid, not a solution.

He pleaded for her forgiveness but Janet's heart was cold iron.

The gym in the afternoon was a circus and the teacher was a dancing bear.

Katie's plan to get into college was a house of cards on a crooked table.

The computer in the classroom was an old dinosaur.

Laughter is the music of the soul.

David is a worm for what he did to Shelia.

The teacher planted the seeds of wisdom.

That burden is my cross to bear.

Each blade of grass was a tiny bayonet pointed firmly at our bare feet.

The daggers of heat pierced through his black t-shirt.

Her hope was a fragile seed.

When Ninja Robots came on TV, the boys were glued in their seats.

Words are the weapons with which we wound.

The test was a walk in the park.

She let such beautiful pearls of wisdom slip from her mouth without even knowing.

Don't trouble your little peanut head over the problem.

She cut him down with her words.

The quarterback was throwing nothing but rockets and bombs in the field.

..We are all shadows on the wall of time.