You are to create a metaphor about music.

Please recall that a metaphor is defined as a figure of speech, or something that we use to replace "normal" words in order to help others understand or enjoy our message. For example, we use the phrase "a blanket of snow" to describe a snowfall that covers the ground evenly, as if the snow were a fabric.

A metaphor is a kind of comparison; it sets two unlike things side by side and makes us see the likeness between them.

A metaphor is a tool for seeing something in terms of something else.

Metaphor means in Greek "carry something across" or "transfer"

Examples:

"Scratching at the window with claws of pine, the wind wants in."
-Imogene Bolls

"No man is an island."
-John Donne

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This page last updated on January 31, 2006