everywhere i go i see metaphors.
road hogs hit the streets and invade every open highway; rug rats crawl on all fours and keep a parent's day full and hectic; i am a couch potato.
i can never write without metaphors. they make the simplest sentence interesting. valentine's day is presented in all its metaphorical splendor. the infamous greek and english playwrights could not have written with spunk without them. song writers are in the same boat, i bet.
tori amos owes her success to metaphors. 'cornflake girl' determined her career in music. who can forget the movie 'great expectations' (a film adaptation of charles dickens' novel)? it was one figurative staging of false hopes and bravado, thanks to anne bancroft's sterling performance as a spinster who was betrayed by her fiance.
with metaphors, you can turn a simple cooking ingredient into a magical word. sugar can mean sweet, chili can mean spicy, onion can pertain to sensitivity.
colloquial terms are best used when answering bar questions. you can never fool a magistrate with your blossoming english vocabulary. but given the length of the exam and the breadth of vocabulary you may overuse as a consequence, metaphors can be your last resort. you'd be surprised at how helpful they are as clinchers.
even a shampoo commercial contains metaphors. "i am rain" is one good example.
metaphors are great when writing blind items: she is anger and misery, or she is a freakozoid =) (kilala nyo na sya? haha!)
life is viewed as one big metaphor: my life is a dream.
i would like to believe that i am a metaphor too: i am a star
=)
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