Metaphor is a common rhetorical device. Finding the similarities between things A and B, we find that things A contain unknown characteristics in things B, and we have a new understanding of things A that is different from usual. According to the way of description or explanation, metaphor can be divided into simile, metaphor, metonymy and metaphor.
Analogy is a rhetorical way to write things A as things B, including writing things as people (that is, personification), writing people as crops (that is, imitation), and writing this thing as another thing (that is, imitation).
2. The forms of these two means are different.
Metaphorical sentences are generally composed of noumenon, vehicle and metaphor.
For example, "every blooming flower is like a small full sail with a sharp bottom." Ontology is a "blooming flower", vehicle is a "full sail" and metaphor is an "image", which constitutes the basic formal structure of figurative sentences, and vehicle is bound to appear in sentences.
3. The emphasis of the two is different.
Metaphor focuses on "metaphor", that is, things A are used to describe things B, and both things A and B have their own subjects. Metaphor focuses on "imitation", that is, taking A's things as B's things and merging A and B's things with each other.
4. Their functions are different.
Metaphor is to explain or describe abstract, abstruse and unfamiliar things with concrete, simple and familiar things. Compared with the personification of things, the characters are vivid and intimate. Bright colors and rich ideographic features often appear. Metaphor emphasizes the similarity between A and B. Metaphor is to make use of their different characteristics to integrate the two bodies, which is the most important symbol to distinguish metaphor from metaphor.