metaphors

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Hello! I should identify different types of metaphors, but I can't( Only 2! Here are metaphors:
My independence seems to vanish in the haze
Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
I am a rock; I am an island
My thoughts are many miles away
We are verses out of rhythm
Once I had a love and it was a gas
Love's a crazy game
You're my lifeline, angel of my lifetime
I am your hope,
I am your chance,
I am your child.

I'll lay on a lilo till I'm lobster red
Walk along the razor's edge

An0nymous · Accepted Answer

A metaphor is a word or phrase or image of one thing, that is used to represent another thing that is completely unrelated to it. Thus, although completely different, the two things are shown to have a kind of relatedness. A further requirement of metaphor is that it have an indirectness and subtlety that is missing in the closely related term, simile, which is quite direct, and connects two dissimilar things with the words "like a" or "as a" (e.g.: He's big as a house.).

1. Here independence, which can be a tenuous thing that is easily lost, is compared to idea of something vanishing in haze.

2. Here love, which can seem easy to handle one day (yesterday) and impossible to grasp the next day (today), is compared to a game that's easy to play (yesterday).

3. Here an person who is a loner and isolated from others is compared to a rocky island.

4. Here thoughts, which have no real limits as to distance, are compared to being physically very distant.

5. Here people, who often cannot get along with one another, are compared to lines of poetry that have no sense of rhythm.

6. Here one's lover, who might be very stimulating, is compared to a stimulating gas.

7. Here love, which can seem bewildering and almost gamelike, is compared to a crazy game.

8. Here one's lover, who can seem angelic and a savior, is compared to a angel and a lifeline.

9. Here one's lover is being compared to hope.

10. One's lover is being compared to chance.

11. One's lover is being compared to a child.

12. I'm not sure about this one.

13. Taking risks is being compared to walking on the edge of a razor blade.

An0nymous · Answer

12.  Here a suntan is being compared to the red shell on a lobster.

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