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Noun Concept

Categories: Narrative techniques, Comparisons, Figures of speech, Descriptive technique

simile Journo-simile similes Similie Similies

A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') WordNet 3.0

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A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things. Wikipedia

Figure of speech making an explicit comparison. Wikipedia Disambiguation

Figure of speech indicating a similarity explicitly,e.g. using "like" or "as", contrasting to metaphor in which the similarity is implicit, e.g. of the form "A is B" Wikidata

IS A

HAS KIND

HAS INSTANCE

analogy of the divided line

DIFFERENT FROM

smile