Metaphors A Micro Lesson from the English 1 Question Micro Course

have you ever read book or an article and felt like you could really picture what was being discussed it's most likely that the text you are reading contains something called metaphor metaphor is phrase that compares two unlike things in order to make writing more visual and interesting for example my little sister is very cute teddy bear metaphor implies that one thing is actually another so if we were to take metaphor literally we would be really confused for example jack is busy bee now we know that jack's not actually jack is boy but by comparing jack to an insect that is really busy and always working hard we can imagine that jack is boy who works very hard