Simile

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• How do you make a comparison?
• Simile examples
• Other figures of speech:

The simile, also called comparison, is a rhetorical figure that serves as a means to establish a relationship between a real element and an imaginary or figurative one. For example: It was cold as an iceberg.

The simile is an element that is quite easy to identify, because unlike what happens in other rhetorical figures, such as metaphor, in similes both elements are named and so is the link that unites these two elements.

In general, this comparative link is the word like, which, like, similar to, so '. When using the as, gives rise to an expressive resource per se called comparison.

In poetic works, this figure is often used to say in an aesthetically elevated way something that in itself can be very simple and, in many other cases, popular culture appropriates this concept and through a simile or comparison makes more eloquent an idea. For example: My heart opens like a treasure.

In many cases, in addition, they acquire a humorous tone that makes them more remembered. For example: Sweat as a false witness or Useless as a motorcycle ashtray.

How do you make a comparison?

The central element of the simile is the transmission of a quality from something to something else, which also has it, but which is not so evident.

Having the ability to make a comparison of this type is essential for writers and poets, and it is surely not easy to find exactly the imaginary element that is specifically adapted to the real question to which you want to refer.

The simile can also be used in argumentative speech and oratory. There, however, the question becomes somewhat stricter and the speaker must take into consideration that there must be a truly robust link between the named elements, since it can fall into the fallacy of a false analogy.

Wrong example of simile: Stating, for example, that A school is like a small business, where grades are student salaries, is true in the sense that both are rewards for effort, but is false in almost every other aspect of the comparison.

Simile examples

1. Sweatas false witness.
2. So Useless as motorcycle ashtray.
3. Happyas dog with two tails.
4. Coldas an iceberg.
5. A temperature like in hell
6. So lightweightas A pen.
7. I don't have a pennywhich scarecrow wallet.
8. Your eyes shineas two stars.
9. Her skin was so whiteas Snow.
10. The sea is so immenseas the greatness of our heart.
11. His hands, soft and beautifulas the velvet.
12. Yellow curlswhich gold.
13. They were still not moving, stillas statues.
14. The subtle worldsas soap bubbles.
15. Eatas new lime.
16. Dangerousas stormy sea.
17. The alley was blackas Wolf's mouth.
18. Your eyes shineas two stars.
19. Life isas a bouncing ball.
20. Singingas the cicada.
21. Sometimes I feelas poor hill and othersas mighty mountain.
22. It was shown so euphoricwhich rock song.
23. Thinkas your enemy, and live like him.
24. Meekas a little lamb.
25. Her blond hairwhich gold.
26. It is so boringas suck a nail.
27. Can swim so goodas a fish.
28. Teachers educate so well as parents.
29. I was firm as statue roll.
30. Her dress was red which burning fire.

Other figures of speech: