Don't forget to visit our webpage for more info and quotes www.spanishizer.com / info@spanishizer.com A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. [1] It may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities between two ideas. Antithesis , hyperbole , metonymy and simile are all types of metaphor. [2] One of the most commonly cited examples of a metaphor in English literature is the " All the world's a stage " monologue from As You Like It : All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances ... — William Shakespeare , As You Like It , 2/7 [3] This quotation expresses a metaphor because the world is not literally a stage. By asserting that the world is a stage, Shakespeare uses points of comparison between the world and a stage to convey a...