Similes and Metaphors

In your own words, what is a metaphor?

We all know that metaphor is a part of the descriptive figures of speech, however, metaphor describes someone or something but with a deeper explanation. It gives examples that are harder to interpret, most of the time it doesn't have a connection with the thing that they're describing. It also makes the reader picture/imagine the metaphor.

Example: 

Her eyes were fireflies. 

(Eyes don't have a connection with fireflies, but it makes you picture it in your head. You're imagining someone with sparkling beautiful eyes like fireflies)

He wanted to set sail on the ocean of love but just wasted away in the desert.

(The ocean and the desert are complete opposites)

In your own words, what is a simile?

Same as with metaphor, simile is also a part of the descriptive figures of speech but we use simile to describe something by comparing it. Most of the time we tend to use two words with similes like and as to make the comparison.

Example: 

The athlete was brave as a lion

The truth was like a bad taste on his tongue

Similes and Metaphors in Songs

Dangerous woman - Ariana Grande

 "Something 'bout you, makes me feel like a dangerous woman

something 'bout, something 'bout you"

Best Part - Daniel Caesar

"You're the coffee that I need in the morning

You're the sunshine in the rain when it's falling

Won't you give yourself to me, give it all, oh"

Paramore - Misery Business

"She's got a body like an hourglass that's ticking like a clock
It's a matter of time before we all run out
When I thought he was mine, she caught him by the mouth"

Taylor  Swift - Blank Space

"You look like my next mistake
Love’s a game, want to play?
New money, suit and tie
I can read you like a magazine
Ain't it funny, rumors, lie
And I know you heard about me"