General
Bonus
Simile
Metaphor
Guess the metaphor
100

Words inaccurate but used to describe or define something.

Figurative language

100

Stephen slept like a baby after working for ten long hours.

Slept like a baby

100

This pláce is a zoo.

A chaotic place.

200

Fight like cats and dogs

Simile

200

My teacher is a monster.

Simple metaphor. Comparison between to things.

300

An implied comparison, in which substitude the original term.

Metaphor

300

Her face became as white as a ghost when she spotted the burglar in her house

As white as ghost.

300

To miss the boat.

To come to late for something

300

The leaves were fluttering in the breeze. (Compares leaves to butterflies)

Implied metaphor

400

She is an open book

Metaphor

400

Fire and fire imagery are often used to describe a person’s love for someone: to carry a torch, burning love, an old flame…

Extended metaphor

500

An explicit comparison of one thing to another using connecting words.

Simile

500

The clothes she wore were as white as snow.

As white as snow

500

The elefant in the room

A topic that everyone think but no one want to talk.

500

“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players;” (from As You Like It) william shakespeare.

Literary metaphor