Metaphor

Metaphor is a figure in which comparison of two things is only implied or suggested but not clearly confirmed. Here a quality properly belonging to an object is transferred to another object. The word metaphor means the transference of meaning.  

Examples of Metaphor:

I’m a riddle in nine syllables,

An elephant, a ponderous house,

A melon strolling on two tendrils.                                   
(Sylvia Plath- Metaphors)

I will drink life to the lees.                                                          
(Tennyson-Ulysses)

Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting.                                                
(Wordsworth)