Metaphors Worksheet (Meanings Part 2) [Animated image]
A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two things. Often times it uses the word “is.”
Directions: For each metaphor given blow, write what you think it means.
Example A: Thoughts are a storm, unexpected
someone may have many unexpected thoughts at anytime
1.Once your heart's been broken it grows back bigger-

2.His hair is a white snowflake and his hair is a messy haystack-

3.He is all heartbroken-

4.The pigeons fountained into the air-

5.Her hair was bone white-

6.He tried to help but his legs were wax-

The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.