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title: "It's time for Similes"
description: "A Simile is like a pair of eyeglasses: one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings the..."
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# It's time for Similes

> A Simile is like a pair of eyeglasses: one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings the...

A Simile is like a pair of eyeglasses: one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.- George McWhirter (an Irish author).

As a proof, there are a million similes, we meet them in every day's life,some of them make you smile like a jack-o'lantern, like a chain saw,like a Czechoslavakian novel, like a man advertising toothpaste, like the warm and gentle Samian sun.

***Simile*** is a rhetorical figure expressing comparison or likeness that directly compares two objects through some connective words such as *like, as, so, than*. Similes can be found just above anywhere; from the printed word to oral conversation; in language, literature or music. Simile has 3 objects: the **tenor**, the **vehicle** and the **link word**. Simile semantically devided into: **original** and **trite** (as a metaphor), but structurally: **ordinary** and **disguised** in which the link between the tenor and the vehicle is expressed by notional verbs, such as *to resemle, to seem, to look like, to appear.*

For example:
- Orion ( Twain's brother) is as happy as a martyr when the fire won't burn.( Mark Twain, letter to his mother, Jane Lampton Clemens, 1872). Here the author compares the **brother** with the **martyr**. **Original** and **ordinary** simile.

I'd like also to share with you with thess "sweet" similes:

1. **Music** sweeter *than* the sweetest **chime** of magic bells by fairies set a -swinging.- Thomas Buchanan Read.

2. Sweet *as* a **child's heart**- lightening laugh to hear.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne.

3. A **secret** sweet *as* **songs of dawn** that linnets sing when mists are gone.- Richard Monckton Milnes.

4. Sweet was her **breath** *as* the **breath of kine** that feed in the meadows.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

5. The **Internet** is an information highway as big *as* an **elephant -** Anonymous.

Similes can be used to enhance the quality of a piece of writing and it is one of the best ways to describe sights and sounds, so that it leaves a lasting image on the reader's mind. If you are writing a piece of fiction or any other literary work, always remember that you should use similes sparingly and in context to your writing!!!

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