After a few lessons on similes and metaphors, I asked students to reflect on their uses and shortcomings as a plenary. One student, more or less, wrote the following:
‘If a metaphor is when you use a word to describe something that it isn’t, is a metaphor a metaphor? It’s very confusing. Raining has nothing to do with cats and dogs and it makes me forget what the writer is talking about. Also, you said a lot of names are metaphors but why would you want to use a metaphor to name someone, I would want my name to mean me, nothing else. That’s why similes are better than metaphors.’
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