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Metaphor Openers

Metaphor Starters Metaphor Starters to Convey Metaphor Starters to Metaphor Starters


to Build Tension Characters Feelings or Actions Describe Settings to Add Action
Supposing that the shadows Before his river of tears began… The stars were dancers in the A knife that cut through
were the enemy… night sky… the crowd sharply,
With her memory filled with fog…
darted…
Her eyes were glowing Warmth blanketed the beach…
Due to him being a walking
candles in the dark… Putting their heads together…
encyclopaedia… As the curtain of night fell…
The trees were soldiers sent to Lending a hand…
While burst with joy… The cold air currents were
surround them…
needles piercing her skin… While the sea was a roaring monster…
As her heart sank…
Even though his face was stone…
The storm was a banshee Her hands were crawling
Drowning in his grief…
The war was a bad dream… screaming through the night… spiders as she…
Whenever my emotions are a
Before the gloomy tomb of The stars were sparkling Though she kept an eye on it…
weight around my neck…
silence began… diamonds in the night sky…
Unless he turned over a new leaf…
Just as a shutter came down
As long as the raging bull of The back garden was a
over his eyes… The rain came down in full,
an earthquake shook… graveyard of forgotten toys…
cold buckets…
She was a terrified animal in
While the fog was a floating When the sun was a hot
flight… He gave instructions at a
ghost over the ground… furnace high in the sky…
snail’s pace…
His anxiety was an anchor
The stifling blanket of air By the time the zoo of a
dragging him down… Since the workers were busy bees…
between them… classroom had settled…
The basement door was a squeaking
His muscles were tight knots… Though the school was a
mouse as it slowly opened…
deserted ship…

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