Simile
['sɪmɪlɪ] or ['sɪməli]
Definition
(noun.) a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as').
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Definition
(n.) 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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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Similitude, METAPHOR, comparison.
Typist: Nora
Definition
n. something similar: similitude: (rhet.) a comparison to illustrate anything.—n.pl. Simil′ia things alike.—v.t. Sim′ilise to liken compare.—v.i. to use similitudes.—adv. Simil′liter in like manner.
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Examples
- I believe this simile largely speaks the truth. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The matron expressed her entire concurrence in this intelligible simile; and the beadle went on. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- They can be best described in a simile. Plato. The Republic.
- Weathercock can without the wind, suggested Jo, as he paused for a simile. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- What an old, old simile that is, between man and timber! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Holmes took up the scrap of paper, a fac-simile of which is here reproduced. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The fac-simile herewith shows the color of the paper of the original document and all interlineations and erasures. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There's no simile for his lungs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He repeated it to Stephens, and, as I heard afterwards, Stephens laughed immoderately at the simile of Mr. Lincoln. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- All similes and allegories concerning her began and ended with birds. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He was but a poor man himself, said Peggotty, but as good as gold and as true as steel--those were her similes. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I had to ransack my memory for some more similes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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