Best Analogies
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Best analogies are like the setting jewelers place their gems in. If overused or used poorly, the shimmer will be lost and the jewel will be lackluster at best. Used properly, it will enhance the gem to its full potential and bring great wealth to the jeweler and the customer.
I wanted to start a thread to see what are some of the best analogies you have used or come across. It can be short similes/metaphors or big picture analogies like the ones the Lord Jesus used.
Post as few or as many as you like.
Here are some recent ones I’ve used…
(to describe someone looking at me like I’m crazy) – She took a few more steps back, looking as if a wild beast had just stood on its hind legs and asked her to dance.
Description of a stavis forest (stavis trees are a type of tree in my fantasy world that has metallic properties) – The tree shimmered in the bespeckled light, like fireflies in a diamond cave.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and left untried. ~ G.K.C.
Oohh, I like this idea! I have a deep love for analogies and use them constantly!
She took a few more steps back, looking as if a wild beast had just stood on its hind legs and asked her to dance.
LOL, that one made me laugh!
Let me see… a few I recall particularly are:
[Describing a forest]:
She’d said there were trees as tall as palaces, arching over the open places like throne rooms, that the birds had plumage brighter than any courtier could flaunt, and that the deer moved through the arches like noblewomen, slow and stately. There were creeks like crystal and rock formations like marble sculptures.
[Same forest, just described by a different person]: (I just really like that forest, XD)
We went around the hill, into the depths of the towering forest. The golden grass faded into shrubbery and majestic trees like the pillars of the ruined palace. Ivy trailed up and down it like a thick tapestry and my feet sank into the warm, sun-dappled moss like the richest of carpets. Brushstrokes of moss speckled the rugged trunk of the trees and the twigs cracked a rhythm to the melody of the singing birds.
The sounds were as familiar as the songs played by the flutists, every one a part of me like nothing else could ever be.
The forest guarded the ruins like a dragon guarded a maiden that had been sleeping a hundred years, trains of ivy as her gown with moss for a pillow and rich sunlight as her golden hair. As I placed a hand on the creamy sandstone, I could almost feel her heartbeat. The forest breathed with the creak of branches and rush of wind through treetops.
Vines twined around the palace, the flowers drooping like rings dropping off the fingers of a princess, rubies, sapphire, emerald, and the gold in the sunlight weaving it together.
Without darkness, there is no light. If there was no nighttime, would the stars be as bright?
that’s beautiful!
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and left untried. ~ G.K.C.
This one I’m pretty proud of… sends shivers….
Female protagonist, in describing the man she’s attracted to after he carries her in from the rain – after drying off, he sits in front of a fire with a blanket rapped around him…
The shadows and lights danced upon his face as a lone drip of water streaked down his face, following the curves of his cheek bone.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and left untried. ~ G.K.C.
A proverbial saying of my world…
“A week’s journey can cast a year’s shadow.”
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and left untried. ~ G.K.C.
Hi there, sir! I don’t believe we’ve met yet. I’m Erynne (Erin 😉 )
This is a really cool idea!
The best analogy I’ve used in writing was a fantasy story and the scene was of siblings trying to escape pirates in the middle of a storm. They were in a small getaway boat and to describe the waves I used this analogy:
The large, dark hands of the sea towered over them and grabbed the boat and pulled them under
Or something like that XD
Not too impressive, but I will definitely have to think of some for my current WIP
Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you ever know who would love the person you hide.
The large, dark hands of the sea towered over them and grabbed the boat and pulled them under Or something like that XD Not too impressive, but I will definitely have to think of some for my current
I think it’s an awesome visual. In a tumultuous sea, it can very well seem like a dark hand rising up to swat you into oblivion!
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and left untried. ~ G.K.C.
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