Example of Metaphors in Texts

The metaphor it is when the meaning of a word is transferred, from one object to another due to its similarity. It is an understood simile.

• ... cypress trees dilute their rusty emerald.

FRANCISCO VILLAESPESA

• "The harmonic keyboard of his fine laugh ..."

RUBEN DARIO

• "... with eyes of cold silver."

FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA

• "Her hair is gold, her forehead fields elysees, her eyebrows arched from the sky, her eyes are sun, her cheeks are pink, her coral lips, her teeth pearls, her neck alabaster, her chest marble, her hands ivory, her whiteness snow."

ROBERT FROST

• "The leaves spiraled and hissed, Blindly collided with my knee and disappeared."

FRANCISCO DE QUEVEDO

• "It is an imprisoned freedom"

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

• "All the world is a stage, and all men and women are mere actors."

MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ

"All houses are eyes that shine and lurk."

RUBEN DARIO

• "It is coming, gold and iron, the courtship of the paladins."

FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA

• "It is not the hell, it is the street."

DON QUIXOTE

Here, Cervantes wryly wields a great deal of

metaphors. It imitates the culterano style that abused that Literary figure. Apart from that, the use of the asyndeton (without conjunctions) is masterful.