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A '''metaphor''' is a figure of speech in which two objects are indirectly compared, such as: "My love is a red, red rose". To write, "My love is ''like'' a red, red rose" ([[Robert Burns]]) would be a [[simile]], because it uses the word "like" or "as". Metaphors do not use these words.

A '''metaphor''' is a figure of speech in which two objects are indirectly compared, such as: "My love is a red, red rose".  

 

To write "My love is ''like'' a red, red rose" ([[Robert Burns]]) would be a [[simile]], because it uses the word "like" or "as". Metaphors do not use these words.

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another, not to give the impression that two things are exactly the same. In the example of "My love is a red, red rose", no reader would reasonably believe that the writers's love had petals, a stem, and thorns.  

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another, not to give the impression that two things are exactly the same. In the example of "My love is a red, red rose", no reader would reasonably believe that the writers's love had petals, a stem, and thorns.