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Definition
a phrase that highlights similarity between things of different kinds — usually formed with "like" or "as"
as in "It's like looking for a needle in a haystack," or "She is as quiet as a mouse."
as in "It's like looking for a needle in a haystack," or "She is as quiet as a mouse."
- If we observe his descriptions, images, and similes, we shall find the invention still predominant.Preface (27% in)
- As a metaphor is a short simile, one of these epithets is a short description.Preface (34% in)
- It is owing to the same vast invention, that his similes have been thought too exuberant and full of circumstances.Preface (47% in)
- His similes are like pictures, where the principal figure has not only its proportion given agreeable to the original, but is also set off with occasional ornaments and prospects.Preface (48% in)
- As it also breaks out in every particular image, description, and simile, whoever lessens or too much softens those, takes off from this chief character.Preface (64% in)
- He sometimes omits whole similes and sentences; and is now and then guilty of mistakes, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but through carelessness.Preface (85% in)
There are no more uses of "simile" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope).
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