Similes
“It dries up like a raisin in the sun”
“...my Love is like a red, red rose,”
"Idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean"
a simile compares two different things by by using the words
"like" or "as" (& sometimes “than”).
Similes are sometimes made without using the words "like" or "as." This often occurs when making comparisons of differing values.
"Norman was more anxious to leave the area than Herman Milquetoast after seeing ten abominable snowmen charging his way with hunger in their eyes."
"But this truth is more obvious than the sun--here it is; look at it; its brightness blinds you."
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:" - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
"I'm happier than a tornado in a trailer park."
"But this truth is more obvious than the sun--here it is; look at it; its brightness blinds you."
Robert Burns's poem “A Red Red Rose” contains two straightforward similes:
My love is like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June:
My love is like the melody
That's sweetly played in tune.
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