20 Examples of Pure Metaphors

Pure Metaphors

Pure metaphors are those metaphors that omit the real component and only express the evoked or imaginary term. For example: The fireflies of the night sky. ("Fireflies" is the evoked term and "stars" is the actual term omitted from the metaphor)

Metaphors are rhetorical figures that allow us to place in the place of “something real”, something that “is imaginary or evoked”. Often times, pure metaphors are only understood according to the context in which they are used.

Examples of pure metaphors

1. His smile of pearls. (pearls, imaginary term in replacement of teeth, the real term)
2. He already had silver threads over his head. (silver threads, imaginary term replacing gray hair, real term)
3. The sky is dressed in cotton. (cotton, imaginary term in replacement of clouds, real term)
4. Mariela is in the spring of the life. (spring, imaginary term replacing adolescence, real term)
5. The tree was left again bald. (bald, imaginary term in replacement of leaves, real term)
6. The pirate from her heart. (pirate, imaginary term replacing thief, real term)
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7. The to become night of the memories of him. (evening, imaginary term replacing amnesia, real term)
8. The sunset of the life. (sunset, imaginary term replacing old age, real term)
9. The brightness of your two blue pearls. (blue pearls, imaginary term replacing eyes, real term)
10. The clothing of the animal. (clothing, imaginary term replacing fur, real term)
11. It was like a climbing plant of love. (creeper, imaginary term replacing hug, real term)
12. It was like galloping beasts at sea. (galloping beasts, imaginary term replacing waves, real term)
13. The cotton that covered his body. (cotton, imaginary term replacing clothing, real term)
14. The woman came out of her cocoon. (cocoon, imaginary term in replacement of home or house, real term)
15. Heaven I cry. (cried, imaginary term replacing it rained, real term)