Simile
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simile-188-4924677
title:
Simile
text:
A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things. Similes are often contrasted with metaphors, where similes necessarily compare two things using words such as "like", "as", while metaphors often create an implicit comparison. However, there are two schools of thought regarding the relationship between similes and metaphors. The first defines them as opposites, such that a statement cannot be both a simile and a metaphor — if it uses a comparison word such as "like" then it is a
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Figure of speech marked by explicit comparison
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simile
date created:
2001-11-12T05:36:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T08:00:58Z
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