![]() To wake to “God’s morning star” is to see God in nature – be it a Christian, Muslim or Buddhist God, or even simply a pantheist. This is a metaphor you might want to use if you’re writing a story from a religious perspective. This is your classic straight-up metaphor where you are directly calling one thing something else. You might write “the yolk of the sun” as a metaphor to describe it, for example. This metaphor calls the sun an egg! It may sound absurd, but if you look at it, it looks like a yolk from the inside of an egg. You can’t imagine using this metaphor when you’re going through hardship or feeling the punishing heat of rays on your skin. This might be a metaphor you use if you feel as if you’ve had a lucky day or got some good news today. The idea that you are being smiled at from above gives you a sense that you’re blessed and cared for throughout your day. This one is another more positive, upbeat metaphor. Again, this is of course personification – it doesn’t really do any watching at all! If we were to consider it to be like a god, we can imagine it’s watching us and passing judgement on us all day long. It almost feels like it’s watching us constantly, standing guard. It sits so far overhead and is visible from just about anywhere you are (so long as you’re outside). We can imagine the sun being the ruler over us. It Stood Watch over its Realm / Looked over You The clouds are being chased like a sheepdog chases sheep, to return to its rightful position as the top dog in the skies. ![]() Of course an inanimate object can’t chase anything or anyone! But what is happening here is the description of the changes in the weather as a battle between different elements. Others have had their own adaptations of this, such as calling the sun a golden orb or medallion in the sky ( See Also: Sky Metaphors). ![]() I’ve always remembered it and banked this in my mind as a great way to start a story. When I took college classes in creative writing, my professor shared a book he wrote, and it opened with the line: “the sun flipped a golden coin”. This metaphor can be used at the end of a storm to show the end of the storm and the return to better weather. But this personification helps us to create an image in our minds. Of course, an object without personality or a brain can’t take a peek at anything. This is another example of personification. Imagine the clouds obscuring the sun’s view, but as the clouds part, it seems like it “peeks out” at you to take a look. We use this metaphor for the moon as well. Related: A List of Summer Metaphors, Similes and Idioms 3. But the heat means it isn’t a friend but an enemy, mocking you as you try to escape its heat. Here, we might imagine the protagonist being along and feeling as if the sun is their only company. The protagonist is exhausted and dehydrated, with a long way to walk in the heat of the day. An example of a time when it might mock a protagonist is when they’re out on a hike through the desert. In this metaphor, the sun isn’t a friend but a tormentor. This is an example of personification of the sun. But we can be much more creative and visual in our description than to say “the sun rays passed between my fingers” – so we say “it slipped through”. ![]() Rather, it’s the sunrays that pass between the fingers. In fact, the it is a long, long way away. It didn’t slide or bounce or refract off your fingers at all. To say it slipped through your fingers is metaphorical because it didn’t literally slip through anything. You can picture in your mind sunrays on your hand and, with your fingers outstretched, some of them passing through the gaps in your fingers to lay on the ground below.
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