Types of metaphors

The news was like music to my ears.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Symbolism

Solving this problem is a piece of cake!

• Extended metaphor

• Simile

• Dead metaphor

• Personification

There's light at the end of the tunnel.

• Literal statement

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

He's living on borrowed time.

• Simile

• Symbolism

• Dead metaphor

• Implied metaphor

He howled in protest and refused to leave.

• Implied metaphor

• Personification

• Symbolism

• Dead metaphor

I need hired hands to work on the farm.

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

• Implied metaphor

• Dead metaphor

All the world's a stage,

And men and women merely players;

they have their exits and their entrances,

and one man in his time plays many parts...

• Extended metaphor

• Implied metaphor

• Synecdoche

• Metonymy

The White house will be announcing the new law tomorrow.

• Simile

• Personification

• Synecdoche

• Metonymy