and I still do it, like a dog that just can't learn any new tricks.
See, that would be a simile, not a metaphor. :)
I don't know when I finally started remembering which was which. Similes are far more common, in fact: a simile uses "like" or "as". Metaphors skip that part. A metaphor would be if you'd written "I call similes metaphors, because I am a dog that just can't learn tricks".
And my apologies if you didn't need that explanation. :)
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Date: 2003-06-25 01:15 pm (UTC)See, that would be a simile, not a metaphor. :)
I don't know when I finally started remembering which was which. Similes are far more common, in fact: a simile uses "like" or "as". Metaphors skip that part. A metaphor would be if you'd written "I call similes metaphors, because I am a dog that just can't learn tricks".
And my apologies if you didn't need that explanation. :)