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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

Metaphors

How do you change "Her eyes were like the sea." into a Metaphor?
  

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I think it already is a metaphor. You're comparing 'her eyes' to 'the sea'. Maybe you could go into some further detail here by describing that particular 'sea' more comprehensively, or by using another verb for 'were'.

— Dokterjokkebrok

  • I think it already is a metaphor.
  • You're comparing 'her eyes' to 'the sea'.
  • Maybe you could go into some further detail here by describing that particular 'sea' more comprehensively, or by using another verb for 'were'.
  • Be very literal, I would suggest, and use vivid descriptions.
  • Regards
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I think it already is a metaphor. You're comparing 'her eyes' to 'the sea'. Maybe you could go into some further detail here by describing that particular 'sea' more comprehensively, or by using another verb for 'were'. Be very literal, I would suggest, and use vivid descriptions.

Regards
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It sounds like a comparison to me. Metaphor is an implicit rather than explicit comparison.

You could drown yourself in her deep blue eyes.
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IvanhrIt sounds like a comparison to me. Metaphor is an implicit rather than explicit comparison.

You could drown yourself in her deep blue eyes.

I understand what you mean. But I would then say that both 'her eyes were like the sea' and 'you could drown yourself in her deep blue eyes' are metaphors. Yours, in my opinion, is only more comple
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You could be right, doc.

A quote from wikipedia

Moreover, metaphor also denotes rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via association, comparison, and resemblance, e
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