1) As American as apple pie 2) As clear as mud 3) As easy as pie 4) As fit as a fiddle for one 5) As good as gold 6) As hot as hell 7) As plain as day 8) Bit of literary imagery 9) Black as night 10) Cheeks like roses 11) Cold as ice 12) Comparative construction 13) Comparative phrase 14) Comparison
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1) Cool as a cucumber 2) Icon 3) Strong as an ox 4) Stubborn as a mule 5) Symbol
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similarly; i.e., continue applying the preceding directive, whatever it was, to the following passage
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a comparison made with 'as,' 'like,' or 'than.'
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• (n.) A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.
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a literary device whereby two things or actions are compared to each other, linked by the words 'as' or 'like'. e.g. The litter drifted round the playground like tattered butterflies lost in flight.
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An analogy or comparison implied by using an adverb such as like or as, in contrast with a metaphor
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A comparison made with 'as,' 'like,' or 'than.'
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Sim'i·le noun ;
plural Similes . [ Latin , from
similis . See
Similar .]
(Rhet.) A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison. « A good swift
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A simile is a literary device of description by comparison, as in 'he slept like a log'.
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A simile is a literary term where you use “like” or “as” to compare two different things, implying that they have some quality in common.
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a comparison built around like, as, or than.
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a figure of speech using 'as' or 'like' for an explicit comparison.
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a figure of speech in which one thing is directly likened to another
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the writer creates an image in readers' minds by comparing a subject to something else: as happy as a lark; as strong as an ox. Many similes are idiomatic: he smokes like a chimney.
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noun a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like` or `as`)
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(language) Figure of speech that in English uses the conjunctions
like and
as to express the comparison between two different things (`run like the devil`; `as d eaf as a post`). It is sometimes confused with metaphor. The simile mak...
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a comparison of two different things using the words like or as.
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[Literary terms] a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
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[SAT terms] a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
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[6th grade words] a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
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[TEKS ELAR vocabulary] a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
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[Difficult words] a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
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[Obscure words] a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
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[Common core terms] a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
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