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When she said he was "as subtle as a sledgehammer," she was using ironic simile.simile = a phrase that highlights similarity between things of different kinds
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A good simile or metaphor will help your audience to remember a main point.
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It was like the room was swinging from side to side, as if it was at the top of a really tall building and the building was swinging backward and forward in a strong wind (this is a simile, too). (source)
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How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. (source)simile = a comparison that highlights an attribute of something by pointing to a similarity with something of a different kind
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To me, literature is something much more alive. More like a barrel of eels. .... Now, if that simile doesn't put you off reading entirely, you know you're serious. (source)simile = a phrase that highlights similarity between things of different kinds
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"Who does he think he is — Achilles?" Colonel Korn was pleased with the simile and filed a mental reminder to repeat it the next time he found himself in General Peckem's presence. (source)
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He stopped, at a loss for a simile. (source)simile = a phrase that highlights similarity between things of different kinds
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One could not stand and watch very long without becoming philosophical, without beginning to deal in symbols and similes, and to hear the hog squeal of the universe. (source)similes = expressions that highlight similarity between things of different kinds
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His idea of it was that he had been making a fool of himself, running around like a chicken with its head cut off—such was the simile that occurred to him. (source)simile = a phrase that highlights similarity between things of different kinds
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It is useless to warn the reader not to take literally all the similes which we are obliged to employ here to express the singular, symmetrical, direct, almost consubstantial union of a man and an edifice. (source)similes = expressions that highlight similarity between things of different kinds
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"...all the peoples of the world stand aside respectfully to make way for the recklessly galloping troika to pass." .... The liberal significance of this simile was appreciated. (source)simile = a phrase that highlights similarity between things of different kinds
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I didn't need similes.† (source)similes = expressions that highlight similarity between things of different kinds
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Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. ... I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. (source)simile = an expression that highlights similarity between things of different kinds
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With limited instruction, he had perfected the art of withholding his insights, forgoing his witticisms, curbing the use of metaphors, similes, and analogies—in essence, exercising every muscle of poetic restraint.† (source)similes = expressions that highlight similarity between things of different kinds
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"Oh, no!" said Levin with annoyance; "that method of doctoring I merely meant as a simile for doctoring the people with schools. The people are poor and ignorant--that we see as surely as the peasant woman sees the baby is ill because it screams. But in what way this trouble of poverty and ignorance is to be cured by schools is as incomprehensible as how the hen-roost affects the screaming." (source)simile = an expression that highlights similarity between things of different kinds
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I dealt with the Ding an $iÑžh, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.† (source)similes = expressions that highlight similarity between things of different kinds
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