The main objective of this article is to shed light on the role and importance of metaphor in rhetorical studies. The article began by defining metaphor, its elements and divisions, in terms of being declarative or empowering, as well as its types in terms of pronunciation and extremity; Either original, dependent, joking, abstract or absolute, or singular or compound with appropriate illustrative models for each of the mentioned and analyzes of its basic elements that make up the metaphor. In the end, the difference between simile and metaphor is that the simile is used only for the purpose used for it in the origin of the language, in which the true meaning of the campaign does not change. As for the metaphor, it is a suspension of the sentence and the change in it to become different from what it should convey to the remainder, so it changes in its pronunciation and its true meaning.