Riddles with metaphors are very interesting! To find them or come up with one yourself, one will first have to “get a hold of” in literary theory. But, no matter how terrifying it may sound, this task is very fascinating.
One has only to start, and the world will be transformed. Already in it, under sobbing skies, where a gigantic pie is being prepared, mustached mothers and fat-bellied lords roam. Between them, tirelessly scurrying someone like a nimble maid. An elephant settles in the apartment, and a bicycle on the grandfather’s nose.
And all this is closely watched by a very, very strange eye.
Short form, capacious image
The metaphor reinforces linguistic imagery and verbal expressiveness in fiction and the art of speakers.
The word "metaphor" comes from μεταφορά (ancient Greek). Translated, this means:
- carryover;
- figurative sense.
An expression can be used in it, the basis of which is a comparison on a common basis. Moreover, the subject itself is not called, but is named as being compared with it.
A guest in the garden and a strange observing eye
This property of these paths makes them fertile material for ingenious tasks. Riddles with metaphors have long been popular. They are built on the basis of these paths now.
No. 1.
Brothers - Little Kids -
They’re gathering together
Not one step apart
They try to be together.
A guest entered the garden today
And he called them the word "bunch."
He gently stroked all the heads,
He tied the family with his hand in dexterity.
They until the fall of strength
Pick up
Behind the hem is green
Matushkin hold on.
But take a closer look
After all, the mother has a mustache!
(answer: grapes in a bunch, gardener, vine)
No. 2.
Watched me once
Very very strange eye.
The natural color of the protein
But what an iris!
Like the sun or the moon
Bright yellow she.
And there’s already no pupil at all!
What kind of eye? The challenge!
(answer: fried eggs)
Very exciting, isn't it? In these riddles with metaphors with the answers of the described paths there are several:
- grapes in clusters - children, little brothers;
- the whole plant is a family;
- mother is a vine;
- green hem - foliage;
- whiskers are special processes that serve to grow and support the plant.
In the case of the second riddle, a metaphor flies from the tongue of almost everyone who has ever broken a chicken egg or ate fried eggs with fried eggs. The name of this dish is metaphorical.
Fresh and sour compare interesting
If the objects are simply likened to one another, we are talking about a turnover called comparison.
These stylistic figures in the statement reinforce:
- expressiveness;
- expressiveness;
- versatility;
- depth.
Rich shades of meanings give rise to associations in the basis of riddles with metaphors and comparisons, stimulate interest in the listener and the guesser.
Beautiful flower, nimble maid and fragile glass
A comparison can be created using the words:
Number 3.
Like a rare flower, beautiful
But I will never become a herbarium.
And do not catch me in vain, -
I still grow in your album.
(answer: snowflake)
Number 4.
Fragile, like thin glass
Polished in the sun.
It became them that flowed yesterday,
That freezes in the cold.
(answer: ice, water)
As in riddles with metaphors, the subject is not called in rhymed comparisons. It needs to be recognized, identified by signs of similarity.
5.
Brown-gray, like a loaf of bread
But small and can fly.
I’m smart, like the strict masters of a servant
Sleep to get food.
I sing unpretentiously, like a little bell:
All ding and diling about one.
I'm in the city, in the field, in the garden, in the village,
Your neighbor is behind every window.
(answer: sparrow)
In this poetic task, comparisons are created using:
- union as (brown-gray, like a loaf of bread; nimble, like a servant of strict owners);
- Union for sure (I sing unpretentiously, like a little bell).
With answers to riddles-comparisons (as with metaphors), there will be no big difficulties.
Create face
It happens that human qualities or properties are transferred to:
- inanimate concepts;
- environmental phenomena;
- abstract concepts.
In this case, the pathway impersonation is used. The latter is intended to help the writer or speaker create such an artistic image that will:
- unique;
- bright;
- the expanding ability of a word to convey a picture of the world, any feelings and sensations;
- unique in conveying your attitude to what is portrayed.
Gluttonous senior under the sneezing sky
Here are some more examples.
No. 6.
The red lord looks down at the beds.
Everything with his appetite is in order.
Water with salts sucks from the earth,
Quickly gets fat, poured juice.
Red cheeks hung
He put out a big belly!
(answer: tomato)
The avatar, which makes a well-known senior man from a well-known vegetable, is not new. Even Gianni Rodari in the famous "Cipollino" introduced him like that.
Just like a fairy tale, only in a more concise form does the riddle. She gives the berry an appetite. It is said that someone “drinks”, “gets fat”, “hangs his cheeks” and “sticks out his belly”. Thus, human traits are attributed to the plant.
A good way to come up with a riddle is personification. As with a metaphor, it produces colorful, catchy lines.
Number 7.
The sky is sad in the morning
By dinner, he frowns at all:
She covered her face in the shade.
I do not go outside.
He coughed very loudly
Sneezed - the earth trembled.
Dark eyebrows
And so bitterly sobbed!
(answer: thunderstorm)
They feel sad, frown, cough, sneeze, eat eyebrows and usually people cry. Animals can do some of this. And giving these qualities to heaven, clouds, thunder and rain is an embodiment.
How to distinguish what it is: riddles with comparison or with a metaphor?
With personification, everything is clear. And with others too. Now let's look at some more examples.
Number 8.
A white lady walks the streets,
The city was covered with chalk on the roof!
(answer: winter, snow)
If there was a “season like a white lady” or “fell asleep with something that looked like chalk,” this would be a comparison. But in this example, a metaphor.
No. 9.
Oh, there was a commotion!
They decided to bake a pie there all over the world.
But in the kitchen heavenly bags
Have lost weight
Flour flows to the ground
We rushed.
(answer: snowfall)
If there would be a statement like: “streams of something, white and light, just flour”, we could talk about a comparison. But there is also a clear mystery with a metaphor.
With answers to the following problems, we are transferred to the sphere of everyday life and personal life.
No. 10.
The cleaning day is coming
Elephant trunk straightens.
Where he went right now
Breathes so good!
The dust sucked in quickly and easily
And our carpet is clean again!
(answer: vacuum cleaner)
No. 11.
There is a frame and two wheels.
But he is not going anywhere.
This little bike
Grandfather wears on his nose.
(answer: glasses)
Since comparisons of a vacuum cleaner hose with a trunk and glasses with a bicycle are hidden, these are puzzles with metaphors.
And here is a puzzle composed according to a fairy tale plot. She's talking about a magical item that is neither a TV nor a telephone. But in the far-off space-time, it performs the same functions and is used for similar purposes. Therefore, we can say that there are metaphors too.
No. 12.
Princess from an old tale
I didn’t have a TV
I didn’t own a cell phone,
But she knew everything she wanted
The kingdom news is distant.
What helped her guys?
(answer: bullseye on a plate)
The poems given here are special exercises for the mind. It is interesting to solve riddles and it is useful to use them as aids in the study of literary techniques.