Similes, metaphors, and analogies are very similar
Similes and metaphors both liken two wholly unlike items. Where a simile uses the “like” or “as” to compare, a metaphor frankly states something as “being.” An analogy is a comparison of two things used for the purpose of explanation.
1.) SIMILE: "Life is like a box of chocolates."
2.) METAPHOR: "Life is a bowl of chocolates."
3.) ANALOGY: "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get."
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Sally sells seashells by the sea shore.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
“Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation,” Martin Luther King.
The sound, not the letter, is the most important element of alliteration meaning, as not all adjacent words sharing first consonants amount to alliteration. ‘Kitty cat’ and ‘fish phobia’ are considered alliteration examples, but not “thirty typists,” because ‘th’ and ‘ty’ don’t sound the same.
Cream of the crop
French fry
Hit the hay
Pecan pie
Super-Size
Tough talk
Trick or treat
Some alliteration definitions include words that begin with vowels or vowel sounds, while others hold that alliterative words can only begin with consonants. In these definitions, adjacent words beginning with vowel sounds are sometimes considered ‘assonance.’
