week 4: Simile

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Simile – the imaginative comparison of two unlike objects, which belong to different classes. A simile consist of 3 components:

• The tenor
• The vehicle
• Link-words

A simile states that A is like/as B

 

Types of simile:

• Semantically:
  • Genuine
  • Trite
  • Structurally:
    • Ordinary
    • Disguised

 

There are some examples of trite similes:

We know that simile and metaphor has something in common and differences, and I found one video about it. If you want you can see :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zQyj-etm2Q

And if all examples in picture below are similes? and why?

Thank you for attention!)