According to the Cambridge dictionnary a "metaphor" is : Definition
an expression which describes a person or object in a literary way by referring to something that is considered to have similar characteristics to the person or object you are trying to describe.
Metaphors help us to express our understanding of the world around us. They add colour, vivid imagery and perhaps emotion to a sentence.
Here are sompe exemples :
My friend gave me the green light to head to his home.
Don't go on that side
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Cheshmeh-Ali (""Spring of Ali") is an ancient recreational place, located in the south of Tehran and north of Rey. The spring is spot in the neighborhood of Ebn-e Babooyeh, Tughrul Tower, and below the Rashkan castle and next to Fath Ali shah inscription. In the past, carpet salers and people used to wash their carpets there, with their idea that the property of this spring water is good and clean for carpets and make them full lighter color by its mineral water.
Well, what is said is fulfilled.
Today I'm happy. How come? Easy, first: chatting with M. my friend in heart, second: joking with O., H-dg, Dr ll, and third: some entries in "education means..." discussion. Adding fourth: an extra day off (yes, today is a day off for me-) and fifth: some work do it.
Thus, I'm still get dressed with the bathrobe all day quiet, smiling and beaming, sometimes laughing, grinning like a Chesire cat, smirking, glad, pleased, delighted, cheerful, cheery, merry, joyful, j
Pematang Siantar is the second big town in my Province. It’s about 45 km away from my village Pematang Bandar and about 150 km from the capital of my Province Medan. The native ethnic of Pematang Siantar is 'Bataknese'. Most of the people who live in Pematang Siantar used Batak language in their life even in the market.
There is a famous traditional market in Pematang Siantar that is Horas Market. The name of the market is taken from the greeting of Bataknese ‘Horas’. In Bataknese when somebody
Is here a nice forum to learn english for English as a sencond language people?
The first day,When I sign in EC,someone tell me "go out here,there are so many erroneous grammar,everybody will ask you where are you from,how old are you,and what's your hobbies and so on." Isn't it?
I really want to improve my english,and this website just be provided by my english teacher,he's from America,I trust that I can make so many friends here who are also wanna learning english with heartfelt feeling.So if
http://youtu.be/7OZ0wfxmRIU Wonderful story of Ann Boleyn, the Queen of England and the wife of the King Hery VIII 1509 - 1547 that was beheade by her husband because of commiting adultery.
He was born in 1517 and died in 1542. Bedides, The six wives (queens consort) of King Henry VIII were Catherine Howard and Anne Boleyn, Henry's two queens who were beheaded, were first cousins.
Anne Boleyn and King HenryVIII
Catherine of Aragon, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Parr and Jane Seymour.
In a lonely moment
A moment....
Some minutes,
Some hours or more.
It’s a moment.....
Sky in peace,
Blanketed clouds,
Dreaming stars,
the night asleep.
A book reads
Its own lines,
a flute plays
In my veins.
Hopes drafting routes – to
Climb the heights,
with future spouse.
Tears washes
Dirt of thoughts,
Grounded forehead
Inquires wrong deeds.
Mind admires created,
Soul praises creator!
Hisham Hussain, Puttalam, Sri Lanka.
This is a translation of the Tamil language original poem composed by me. This (dra
could someone tells me what's the diffrent between these two sentences when we use them in isolate means in single sentence?
I will come.
or
I would come.
We all need a laugh and this will give it to you....
v all have a hectic life no time to have fun or enjoy..v miss even a smile...bt m sure u will smile after watching these...........
hot dog
lap dog
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This is the journal from my trip to Canada, which I took a month ago.
Day One: Welcome to Toronto
For quite some time I’d had it in mind to travel to Canada, to see Quebec perhaps, but in the final I decided on Toronto. I had heard about Niagara Falls, so I thought, “Why not?”
I have to admit that my trip wasn’t as well-organized as I would have liked. It was rushed because I’d had a lot of work lately. However, it was not bad for my first time traveling alone in an unfamiliar country whose la
