Metaphor is an indirect comparison between two things. Explain.

A metaphor is used to suggest that one thing acts as another by saying it is that thing. 

For example, The news was a dagger to his heart. 

Shakespeare has said in one of his works, 

"All the world’s a stage, 

And all the men and women merely players 

They have their exits and their entrances” 

This is the best example for a metaphor. Metaphors are generally made use of by people associated with literature. 

Here in the above example Shakespeare has indirectly compared the world to a stage by bringing out the similarities between the world and a stage. 

Although metaphors and analogies are both comparisons of things, metaphors are normally shorter and simpler than analogies.