Find metaphors and comment on their functions 1) And the skirts! What a sight were those skirts! They were nothing but vast decorated pyramids; on the summit of each was stuck the upper half of a princess. 2) They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate. 3) Bald November reigned outside. The little pear tree bejeweled with fruit had become a set of sticks. 4) The little old house was sighing and muttering to itself, full of memories and mice.