A metaphor is a comparison that does not use the words "like" or
"as." Here are some metaphors from The Lovely
Bones.
1) I knew he was going to kill me. I did not
realize then that I was an animal already dying."
Susie
was not, of course, literally a dog or cat or any other animal. Rather, she is
comparing herself to a dying
animal.
2) In the walls of my sex there was horror and
blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.
A sexual
experience does not actually have walls. Susie is comparing her experience to walls that limit
and contain a person.
3) Mr. Harvey left his house for
the final time while my mother was granted her most temporal wish. To find a doorway out of her
ruined heart, in merciful adultery.
A heart does not have
a doorway. The author is comparing an emotional release to an exit through a doorway.
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