—Shakespeare.
2. For very young he seemed, tenderly reared; Like some young cypress, tall, and dark, and straight.
—Matthew Arnold.
3. In the primrose-tinted sky The wan little moon Hangs like a jewel dainty and rare.
—Francis C. Rankin.
+89. Metaphor.+—A metaphor differs from a simile in that the comparison is implied rather than expressed. They are essentially the same as far as the comparison is concerned, and usually the one kind may be easily changed to the other. In a simile we say that one object is like another, in a metaphor we say that one object is another.
EXERCISES
Select the metaphors in the following and change them to similes:—
1. In arms the Austrian phalanx stood,
A living wall, a human wood.
—James Montgomery.