Originally Posted By: involucre
i am a new user and don't know how to "get permission" to start a new subject". I just want to know if you will send me an example of a sentence that is a metaphor.


You don't need permission. Just click on the New Topic box on the page one level higher than this.

A good place to go to find examples of various rhetorical devices, such as metaphor, is Silva Rhetoricae. Scroll down to metaphor in the right hand panel and you'll get several good ones.