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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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simile, an object, scene, or action, introduced by way of comparison for explanatory, illustrative, or merely ornamental purpose, e.g. ‘as strong as an ox’, or more poetically, ‘The moon, like a flower | In Heaven's high bower | With silent delight | Sits and smiles on the night’ (Blake, ‘Night’,
Songs of Innocence); or, in more
Modernist vein, ‘the evening is spread out against the sky | Like a patient etherised upon a table’ ( T. S.
Eliot, ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’). See also
epic simile.
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Similes on the Internet have explanations
Magazine article from: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...hypothesis about metaphors, similes, and explanations...sentences on the Internet. A simile is a figurative comparison...crime is a disease. Similes imitate literal comparisons...the connection between similes and metaphors is still...either a metaphor or a simile using the same word ...
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Simile Software Releases Simile Media Server.
Business Wire; 9/27/2001; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 2001 Simile Media Server Intelligently Connects Content...Services to Maximize Revenue from Content Simile Software, the emerging leader in unstructured...announced the immediate availability of Simile Media Server. Simile Media Server helps...
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Effective Simile and Effective Act: Psalm 109, Numbers 5, and KUB 26
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Every language uses similes. Not only do they...commonly known, a simile is a figure of speech...particular class of similes in the Hebrew Bible...this topic. The simile considered here can...indicates that these similes are linked to the...Hillers's "effective simile" types. In ...
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BEST SIMILES COMPARE FAMILIAR OBJECTS, HAVE A NICE CADENCE.(News/National/International)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 3/16/1997; 700+ words
; ...ready to take a shot at a simile. The best similes are based upon familiar...My point: The good similes compare familiar objects...worms and a sofa. Good similes have a nice cadence...stethoscope: Have you made the simile work?
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Pre-facing simile vehicles in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's sonnets.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Style; 12/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...argues, but between "illustrative simile, and modeling simile or metaphor." It is the latter that...in a modeling than in an illustrative simile. The most effective and original modeling similes, as Eva Kittay explains, are those...
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Great Simile Contest Is Upon Us Again
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/22/1995; ; 696 words
; ...in mind that the best similes are short similes. Ken Burger, sports...Courier, fashioned a nice simile at the time of the Ryder...things make the best similes. In our everyday world...moving clouds. The good simile is packed into a sentence...
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Here's a Contest as Exciting as a Shapely Simile
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/29/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...year we held a Great Simile Contest. I invited...try their hand at similes for "rough...part in the Great Simile Contest. Most contestants...shot at all four similes, so we looked at...remember that similes can go either way. There is the Simile Straight - as exciting...
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"So stretched out huge in length": reading the extended simile.
Magazine article from: Style; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...study of the extended simile may offer some insights...trope and genre. Homeric similes often interrupt a story...which examined the simile in relation to the literal...nature is what makes simile, and not metaphor...matter of implication, similes appear in a limited number...
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And Now, the Great Simile Contest of '94
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/23/1994; ; 684 words
; ...time for the Great Simile Contest of 1994...we seek original similes in two general fields...we mean to embrace similes for the giggle...rules for 1994: Your simile must be contained...high school (one simile per student). Be...more than 20,000 similes for "slender" and...
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Best similes and metaphors are short and original
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/7/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...of the art. The best similes and the best metaphors are the short ones. If a simile gets wordy, it loses...improvement. Perhaps the simile can't be improved. One more point about similes: They have to stay in...journalism, used to cite a simile that spoiled a lyrically...
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simile
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
simile [Lat.,=likeness], in rhetoric...contains two straightforward similes: My love is like a red, red...tune. The epic, or Homeric, simile is an elaborate, formal, and sustained simile derived from those of Homer.
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SIMILE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
SIMILE. A FIGURE OF SPEECH , in which...realistic comparison and not a simile, but The Assyrian came down...on the fold (Byron) is a simile because neither savagery nor...Everyday usage is rich in similes, many of them idiomatic...
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epic simile
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
epic simile, an extended simile which compares one composite action with another, often with a digressive effect; it originates in Homer , and was imitated by Virgil , Dante , and, in English, notably by Milton . It is frequently parodied by Fielding .
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METAPHOR
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...like ANTITHESIS , HYPERBOLE , METONYMY , SIMILE are all species of metaphor. Although...Quintilian (1C AD), using the simpler figure simile ( He fought like a lion ) as a way in...is:‘A metaphor is like a simile condensed. In a simile the comparison...
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metaphor
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...differs from ordinary comparisons in its inventiveness, and from a simile in the complexity of the idea expressed. ‘Fleece as white as snow’, is a simile, whereas ‘His political life was a constant swimming against...
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