In everyday life, people use metaphors to communicate with others, define reality evolution and provide new sense to elements around them. Metaphors could be defined a mental instrument that allows to go beyond words and build innovative meanings (Black, 1983) and, as reported by Runco (2007), they could be considered a creative act.///In this paper, we proposed to analyse metaphors on the light of different perspectives that explain creativity: associationism, Gestalt theory, and factorial perspective. Moreover, we examined features and possible application fields of the Metaphor Creation Test (MCT), proposed by Primi (2006) in order to measure creative ability by means of metaphorical creativities. The MCT distinguished 4 factors: 1) fluidity, that is the ability to provide a large number of responses; 2) production, that regards the ability to produce correct metaphors; 3) flexibility, that is the ability to construct metaphors referring to different semantic fields; 4) quality that coincides with the ability to find equivalent or parallel relationships between different domains (equivalence-quality) and to think of unusual and unconventional associations among stimuli (remoteness-quality). Future researches could deepen relationships between metaphoric creativity and other psychological processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]