Metaphors

Read Job 25-27

Job 27:20 "Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night."

Metaphors are what we use to bring a concept to life using a symbolic comparison, rather than a direct comparison. The above verse uses both simile—using the direct comparison “as waters”—and metaphor, when the tempest steals the terrified person away at night.

Metaphors can add poetry to our writing. We can use metaphors to make our writing clearer.

We can use metaphors to give substance to ideas. Metaphors help people form pictures in their minds so they can understand what we’re saying, whether we are writing fiction or nonfiction.