Language Features (Similes and Metaphors)

08/02/19

What is a Metaphor?

A Metaphor is like a simile but without using AS or LIKE because it is comparing two things that
different but implying it is.

What is Simile?

A Simile is the comparison of one thing to another. It used by many to compare two things that have similar features. When saying or writing a simile the words AS or LIKE is used to compare the two things.

Songs with Similes and Metaphors

Burn by Ellie Goulding:

We, we don't have to worry bout nothing'
Cause we got the fire, and we're burning one hell of a something
They, they gonna see us from outer space, outer space
Light it up, like we're the stars of the human race, human race (Simile)


Waterfalls by TLC:

Don't go chasing waterfalls (metaphor)
please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
I know that you're gonna have your way or nothing at all


Titanium by David Guetta:

Ricochet, you take your aim
fire away, fire away 
you shoot me down but I won't fall
I am Titanium (Metaphor)

Red by Taylor Swift:

Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street
faster than a wind, passionate as sin, ended so suddenly (Simile)