simile

Simile
Definition:

An explicit comparison, normally using like, as, or if. For example, rmemeber Robbie Burns' famous lines, "O, my love is like a red, red rose / That's newly sprung in June. / O, my love is like a melody, / That's sweetly played in tune."

Examples:

-Her hair was like gravy, running brown off her head and clumping up on her shoulders.

-You are like a hurricane: there's calm in your eye, but I'm getting blown away —Neil Young

-The air-lifted rhinoceros hit the ground like a garbage bag filled with split pea soup.

See also Metaphor

Citations: Burton, Gideon O.. "Rhetoric." __Simile__. Silva Rhetoricae. 2 Apr 2007 .

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