Metaphor examples for kids Explaining the idea of a metaphor to kids may be challenging, but using examples always helps. Kids’ metaphors tend to be lively and exciting, full of animals and imaginative ideas, making metaphors into a great pedagogical tool. Her tears were a river flowing down...
(The classroom was noisy and the kids are not in their seats.) Not all metaphors are written in the simple pattern like those above. Here are a few more examples of metaphors. Even though they are not written in the same pattern, they do compare two different nouns. My boss fired thes...
Examples of dead metaphors include: “raining cats and dogs,”“throw the baby out with the bathwater,” and “heart of gold.” With a good, living metaphor, you get that fun moment of thinking about what it would look like if Elvis were actually singing to a hound dog (for example)....
”You will come up with an interpretation:One can play with other kids, make friends for life, learn to build sandcastles;and sometimes one has to play alone, etc. But if I had said instead“The Univer-sity is a gym”then you would equally well have managed to interpret the utter-ance...