Metaphors. This KS2 English quiz will test you on metaphors. A metaphor is a figure of speech. In his poem 'Timothy Winters', the poet Charles Causley describes a boy with 'ears like bombs', 'teeth like splinters' and 'eyes as wide as a football pool'. metaphor explains that a thing or person IS something else, rather than like something else. 1  The cat slipped through the grass like a stealthy tiger. 2  The cat was a stealthy tiger, slipping through the long grass. 3  The cat was as stealthy as a tiger. 4  The cat slipped through the grass as stealthily as a tiger.