A metaphor is saying something is something else.eg.Your love is the fire in my heart.The event was the cherry on my cake.The tree is the life system of the field.
A metaphor is used for comparing two words without using like or asEX in stead of saying, "the girls hair was like a field of golden wheat." you would say, "the girls hair is a field of golden wheat."
Originally, metaphor was a Greek word meaning "transfer". The Greek etymology is from meta, implying "a change" and pherein meaning "to bear, or carry". Thus, the word metaphor itself has a...