I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide.
~from "Introduction to Poetry"
by Billy Collins
Definition A figure of speech, comparing two alike things with connecting words, such as like, as, than, and resembles.
Example The poem above
Significance Comparing things help things get a little easier, while you don't know how to describe the cold as harsh as you can without using the word harsh. Yeah, that's right, compare the cold to a nail, isn't that much easier for you.
Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail.
~from "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
by Robert W. Service
Take time, the magic will come to you with this figure of speech. [sim-ee-ly]
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