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We push and pull a Magnet do
Just a moth drawn to a flame
Hit me a drug and i can't stop it
fit me a glove and i can't knock it
airplanes in the night sky shooting stars
Falling ashes to the ground
I came in a wrecking ball
I'm floating a butterfly
Stinging a bee, I EARNED THE STRIPES
EVERYDAY EXAMPLES
eXAMPLES FROM everyday PARLANCE
I slept like a log.
Like, As
Compare, Resemble
The news hit me like a ton of bricks.
Her dress was light as a feather.
SIMILE
wHAT IS A SIMILE?
A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things.
To make the comparison, similes most often use the connecting words "like" or "as."
The comparison made by a simile is often explicit.
The little girl was as
beautiful as a rose.
GIRL
ROSE
WHY DO WE USE SIMILE?
why do we use simile?
Simile describes one thing using something else which is more familiar and relatable to the audience. This eases the imagination of the unfamiliar thing.
The stars are shining in the sky.
The sky is full of stars.
The night sky looks beautiful.
To spark the reader's imagination. It helps the reader to create a mental picture of the thing being described.
It makes the description more vivid and interesting, which grasps the reader's attention.
The night sky looked like a velvet curtain studded with expensive diamonds.
The light from the stars lit up the sky like a bright lantern.
LITERARY EXAMPLES
EXAMPLES FROM LITERARY TEXTS
...In the eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a rug laid for the feet of the coming sun . . .” — The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
...she tried to get rid of the kitten which had scrambled up her back and stuck like a burr just out of reach.” — Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
“. . . and snow lay here and there in patches in the hollow of the banks, like a lady’s gloves forgotten.” — Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, by R. D. Blackmore
"A breeze blew through the room, (blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags." —The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
“. . . utterly absorbed by the curious experience that still clung to him like a garment.” — Magnificent Obsession, by Lloyd C. Douglas
"Its just that they looked so lost...Like they were all dead. Like a funeral procession." — Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Dresden was like the moon now, nothing but minerals. — Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! — Sonnet 97, by Shakespeare
“I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o’er vales and hills.”— William Wordsworth, “Daffodils”
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wHAT IS not A SIMILE?
PHRASE
rEASON
Adjective- similar
As long as you are here, I will stay.
I will not be able to meet you as I will be busy with work this weekend.
Aman and Sneha are like minded people.
I like the way you dress up.
Do you know how to add up like fractions?
verb
Noun- similar
SIMILE vs METAPHOR
SIMILE vs METAPHOR
similarities:
dIFFERENCEs:
Both are types of figurative language- beyond literal meaning.
- Simile
- Metaphor
Her eyes were like bright stars.
Her eyes were bright stars.
Both are used to draw comparison between unlike things.
Similes use the words "like" or "as" to establish the comparison between two things. No such words are used in a metaphor.
A simile makes an explicit comparison by asserting that two different things are similar while a metaphor asserts an implicit comparison by stating that one thing is the other thing.