Trees are Giants Tall, ancient trees are often called giants. This metaphor is not employing trees to describe something else, but rather employing something else to describe a tree!

How to create fantastic metaphors.

1. Choose a character, object, or setting. Say, for example, you’re going to write a metaphor about a soccer goalie.
2. Focus on a particular scene you’re describing.
3. Now think of some other objects that share characteristics you identified in Step 1.
4. Take your metaphor and expand on it.

Metaphor, which allows writers to convey vivid imagery that transcends literal meanings, creates images that are easier to understand and respond to than literal language. Metaphorical language activates the imagination, and the writer is more able to convey emotions and impressions through metaphor.

The main difference between a simile and metaphor is that a simile uses the words “like” or “as” to draw a comparison and a metaphor simply states the comparison without using “like” or “as”. An example of a simile is: She is as innocent as an angel. An example of a metaphor is: She is an angel.

What is the purpose of such language? According to Lakoff and Johnson (1980; 1999), metaphors allow us to understand abstract thoughts and feelings that cannot be directly seen, heard, touched, smelled, or tasted. Stated a different way, we may speak metaphorically because we think metaphorically.

People who strictly categorize things, insisting on hard boundaries, will resist metaphorical comparisons. From a literalist point of view, figurative speech makes no sense, it is absurd. It is hard to escape metaphorical speech, however. I tried to avoid metaphors in this answer, but “hard boundaries” is figurative.

For example, “Life is a box of chocolates.” An analogy is saying something is like something else to make some sort of explanatory point. For example, “Life is like a box of chocolates—you never know what you’re gonna get.” You can use metaphors and similes when creating an analogy.

Simply by being exposed to particular metaphors, we may, for instance, develop very hostile feelings towards specific groups of people. Metaphors that identify others as pests, deadly animals, reptiles, parasites, disease, filth, zombies, or demons obviously fall into this category.

Some common synonyms of dangerous are hazardous, perilous, precarious, and risky.