This document discusses metaphors and provides examples. It defines a metaphor as a comparison between two unlike things not using "like" or "as", and identifies the tenor as the subject being described and the vehicle as the image with which it is compared. Several common metaphors are examined, such as "speech is silver; silence is gold" with speech as the tenor and silver as the vehicle. The document also lists metaphors from literature and religion and identifies the tenor and vehicle in each.

1. Knowledgeis power.
Life isa journey.
Speech is silver;silenceis gold.
Ironis destroyed byits own rust.

2. Knowledgeis power.
Life isa journey.
Speech is silver;silenceis gold.
Ironis destroyed byits own rust.

3. • a literary device used to directly
compare twodissimilar entities
*Proverbs are often metaphorical in
nature.

4. Twopartsofmetaphor:
the concept, object, or person being described
as something else
the image that has characteristics which are
attributedto thetenor
tenor
vehicle

5. Yourwords are daggersthat pierced
throughmy heart.
tenor
vehicle
words
daggers

6. Books arethe mirrorsofthe soul
tenor
vehicle
books
soul

7. People saythat eyes are windows to the
soul.
tenor
vehicle
eyes
windows

8. TENOR VEHICLE
speech silver
silence gold
Speechissilver;silenceisgold.

9. TENOR VEHICLE
knowledge power
Knowledgeispower.

10. TENOR VEHICLE
life journey
Lifeisajourney.

11. TENOR VEHICLE
person iron
negative qualities or
a negative mindset
rust
Ironisdestroyedbyitsownrust.

12. Read the sentences that contain
metaphors. Encircle the
and underline the vehicle.
1. All our words are but crumbs that
fall down from the feast of the mind.
(Kahlil Gibran)
2. And your very flesh shall be a great
poem. (Walt Whitman)
tenor

13. 3. Let us be grateful to people who
make us happy, they are the charming
gardeners who make our souls
blossom. (Marcel Proust)

14. 4. Conscience is a man’s compass.
(Vincent Van Gogh)
5-6. All the world’s a stage, and all the
men and women merely players. They
have their exits and their entrances.
(William Shakespeare)
7. A hospital bed is a parked taxi with
the meter running. (Groucho Marx)

15. 8. Advertising is the rattling of a stick
inside a swill bucket. (George Orwell)
9. Dying is a wild night and a new
road. (Emily Dickinson)
10. I am the good shepherd, … and I
lay down my life for the sheep.
(The Bible, John 10:14-15)

16. Read the sentences that contain
metaphors. Encircle the
and underline the vehicle.
1. Laughter is the mind
sneezing.(Wyndham Lewis)
2. The teaching of the wise is a
fountain of life. (Prov. 13:14)
tenor

17. 3. Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread
of life; he who comes to me will not
hunger, and he who believes in me will
never thirst.’ (John 6:35)
4. He is the rock! His work is perfect,
for all His ways are just; a God of
faithfulness and without injustice,
righteous and upright is He. (Deut.
32:4)

18. 5. Judah is a lion’s whelp; from the
prey, my son, you have gone up. He
couches, he lies down as a lion, And as
a lion, who dares rouse him up?
(Gen. 49:9)