Simile:
He walked a steady pace, getting his evening workout in while still taking time to enjoy the beautiful scenery around him. Amidst the small grass area in front of him laid a tired, beat up Doberman -- stray and staring into the man's eyes. To his surprise, the dog jumped on him -- licking the man up and down and begging to be pet. The man smiled and breathed a sigh of relief, as if the weight of the world had been lifted from his shoulders.
Metaphor:
The slugger stood up to bat. To an onlooker, the boy stood in his backyard. To the boy, he stood in Yankee Stadium -- batting with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th inning. The pitch came and the boy crushed one over the fence. Crash! The ball shattered through his neighbor's window. The boy stood in fear as the angry old lady came storming out of the house.
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2 comments:
Your second example is another simile, not a metaphor. (Saying "similar to" is the same as saying "like.")
However, if you said the ball "rocketed" through his neighbor's window, that would be a metaphor.
5/10 -- Want to give that metaphor thing another shot?
Geez, did I just go brain-dead and miss that the first time around? It's (old, tired simile alert) clear as a bell now.
10/10
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