How do we use metaphor and simile in a lyric? Metaphor and simile can help us communicate imagery and ideas very effectively. So how do you create metaphors? A good place to start with an expressed identity metaphor. And that’s the term given to the kind of metaphor in which we say “X is y” For example – the rain is a hammer. We all know the rain is not literally a hammer, but rain and hammer share the characteristics of sometimes pounding. That shared characteristic allows us to create a metaph