AbstractUnderstanding figurative language in literature can be puzzling for students due to its ungrammatical form. Corpus-based metaphor analysis, however, provides the lens assisting the students to learn this figurative language. The objectives of this study are 1. to determine the variation of metaphors used in two types of self-help books about teenager’s life, emotions, education, and finance; 2. to analyse the manner the authors manifest each concept through metaphors; 3. to discuss how the findings can contribute to the learning of metaphor in English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This study employed both quantitative and qualitative methods. The instruments used are a corpus that were extracted from two popular English self-help books which are The Chicken Soup for Teenage Soul and Rich Dad Poor Dad for Teens; Wmatrix concordance software supported with the USAS semantic tagger that can help in finding the frequency of occurrence of life, emotions, education and finance keywords rela.....