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What (who) is Simile - definition

FIGURE OF SPEECH INDICATING A SIMILARITY EXPLICITLY,E.G. USING "LIKE" OR "AS", CONTRASTING TO METAPHOR IN WHICH THE SIMILARITY IS IMPLICIT, E.G. OF THE FORM "A IS B"
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A simile is an expression which describes a person or thing as being similar to someone or something else. For example, the sentences 'She runs like a deer' and 'He's as white as a sheet' contain similes.
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·noun A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.
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Similitude, comparison, metaphor.

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Simile

A simile () is a figure of speech that directly compares two things. Similes differ from metaphors by highlighting the similarities between two things using comparison words such as "like", "as", "so", or "than", while metaphors create an implicit comparison (i.e. saying something "is" something else). This distinction is evident in the etymology of the words: simile derives from the Latin word similis ("similar, like"), while metaphor derives from the Greek word metapherein ("to transfer"). As in the case of metaphors, the thing that is being compared is called the tenor, and the thing it is being compared to is called the vehicle. Author and lexicographer Frank J. Wilstach compiled a dictionary of similes in 1916, with a second edition in 1924.

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Pronunciation examples for Simile
1. We turn facts into similes and metaphors,
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2. There's an old little simile, which
Be Grumpy _ Ajahn Brahm _ Talks at Google
3. Some realities have no simile, truth is like truth.
The Poetics of Saving the World _ Joseph Green _ Talks at Google
4. And that's a simile I use for doubt.
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5. that provide a new joke, a new frame, a new simile or metaphor
Hit Makers - The Science of Popularity _ Derek Thompson _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of Simile
1. He rejects comparisons with politicians, though he does reach for a political simile.
2. And she went beyond the obvious in her use of simile.
3. Using a football simile, the European commission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, says the EU‘s "period of reflection" is already in extra time.
4. The most common such figure is simile, and dysfunctional similes at that, incapable of conveying a serious wines multiple scents and flavours.
5. It was a simile(?) about the press, who hound(ed) him constantly, hoping for little scraps of scandal upon which to hang him from.
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