Tag: metaphors

26 Metaphors for Wasting Time (With Examples)

Ask anyone what they did last Tuesday evening and watch the pause. They know it went somewhere. They just can’t point to it. That…

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Here are examples of metaphors for kids, sorted the way a classroom actually works: by grade band, from kindergarten to the middle school years.…

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You’ve probably used three or four metaphors before lunch today. “I’m drowning in email.” “That meeting was a waste of time.” “My phone died.”…

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A novelist has pages to make you feel something. A songwriter has about three minutes, and half of that is guitar. So the craft…

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Here’s a challenge. Read the fifteen questions below with a pencil, write your answers on paper, and only then scroll to the key. No…

November 14, 20265 min read

Try this: write down the word “fast” and nothing else. It’s flat, isn’t it? Now write that the train is a sentence with no…

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Your teacher writes “The test was a mountain” on the board and asks, “What are metaphors?” Half the class thinks about hiking. Fair enough.…

November 14, 20265 min read

It is nine on a Saturday morning, the sponge is in your hand, and the kitchen looks back at you like an unpaid bill.…

November 13, 20267 min read

A seven-year-old hears “my brother is a pig at dinner” and quietly checks the table for a snout. That small moment is the whole…

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Ask someone for a metaphor and they often freeze. Ask how their week went and they’ll say it was a rollercoaster. Same thing, and…

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Count how many times you used a metaphor before lunch today. Probably more than you’d guess. You “caught” a bus, your inbox was “flooded,”…

November 13, 20265 min read

Ask ten people about similes and metaphors and nine will tell you the same thing: one uses “like” or “as,” the other doesn’t. That…

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