Hello everyone,<\/p>\n
This time let’s take a look at metaphors<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Metaphors are used every day all day in English, casual, business or otherwise. A metaphor is a statement that says one thing is another thing that it definitely is not<\/strong><\/em>. They are also often made up by using a word or expression said in its non-literal sense or way<\/strong>. Metaphors are used to help depict or explain something by comparing it to something else.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here are a couple of types of metaphors:<\/p>\n For example:<\/p>\n \u30fb”It is cold as hell today!”<\/strong><\/p>\n As we all know, hell is supposed to be a very hot place, but we compare two things that have no obvious connection to make a powerful point.<\/p>\n Here are a few more examples:<\/p>\n \u30fbLove is a battlefield<\/strong> (Love is not literally a battlefield, but it can be like fighting on one sometimes);<\/p>\n \u30fbYour room is a pigpen!<\/strong> (The room is not literally a pigpen, but it is very dirty like one);<\/p>\n \u30fbTime is a thief<\/strong> (time is not literally a thief, but it can feel like it steals your life away);<\/p>\n \u30fbMy dad is a big teddy bear<\/strong> (dad is not literally a teddy bear, but he is soft and loving like one);<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For example:<\/p>\n \u30fb”This road knows <\/em>how to throw you off your bicycle”.<\/strong><\/p>\n We all know that a road literally cannot know<\/em> anything. Here we use the word “know” as a figure of speech to apply it to an object or action which literally cannot be true. Basically this statement means “this road is very difficult to ride a bicycle on”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Here are some more examples:<\/p>\n \u30fbHe gave Tom an icy<\/span> look<\/strong> (the look is not literally icy) – this means he stared at Tom very hard and not in a nice way.<\/p>\n \u30fbHe burned her with his words<\/strong> (he did not literally burn her) – this means he hurt her feelings with his words.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I hope you get the gist of these a little now.<\/p>\n Try putting some metaphors you know in your own language into English in your writing to make a point in the future! It can emphasize a point and make your work interesting to read!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello everyone, This time let’s take a look at metaphors. Metaphors are used every day all day in English, casual, business or otherwise. A metaphor is a statement that says one thing is another…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":12394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[809,442],"tags":[100,943,1012,214,486,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-12383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-speaking","8":"category-writing","9":"tag-english-learning","10":"tag-english-phrase","11":"tag-metaphors","12":"tag-214","13":"tag-486","14":"tag-213","15":"article cf"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12383"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12416,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12383\/revisions\/12416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u82f1\u8a9e\u306e\u6bd4\u55a9\u306e\u7a2e\u985e\u3092\u898b\u3066\u307f\u3088\u3046\uff01<\/h2>\n
A) A statement that says one thing is another thing that it definitely is not. <\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n
B) A word or expression said in its non-literal sense or way.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n