What the Heck's a Metaphor?
Metaphors are figures of speech that bring drama, color, texture, vision, history, action, or thrill to your work. For example:
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
~William Shakespeare
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
~Mark Twain
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are. Up above the world to so high, like a diamond in the sky.
~Jane Taylor
Hmmmm...anyone see a theme?
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
~William Shakespeare
