Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech in which there is an indirect comparison or contrast between some words, without using 'like' or 'as'. These words always have something in common in their meaning. A metaphor expresses unfamiliar (the tenor) in terms of the familiar (the vehicle). The tenor is equal to the vehicle, formula: [A is B]. Metaphors can be divided in two ways - semantically and structurally. Semantically: original (E.g .It's been a purple dinosaur of a day) and trite (E.g. A blanket of snow covered the garden). Structurally: simple (E.g. The UK is a melting pot of cultures), prolonged (E.g. It will take a big tractor to plow the fertile fields of his mind. ), mixed (E.g. It was playing with fire in the belly.) "Metaphor is a device for seeing something in terms of something els…