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title: "Let's discuss Simile"
description: "This week we started a new theme called Simile.Simile is another stylistic device, the imaginative c..."
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# Let's discuss Simile

> This week we started a new theme called Simile.Simile is another stylistic device, the imaginative c...

This week we started a new theme called **Simile**.

![Let's discuss Simile](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/molotorenkok/PSf7D596P9Tnzlw4PsgM5e1DgXfkoe.jpg)

**Simile** is another stylistic device, the imaginative comparison *of two unlike objects*, but they are ***belonging to different classes***. For instance, **"****That guy is as nutty as a fruitcake”.**

Here a *human being* - **“a guy”** is compared to *bakery goods* - **“fruitcake”**, actually these two objects belong to ***different classes***. Animate compared to inanimate object. Simile is direct comparison, which unlike metaphor **consists of three objects**: ***the tenor, the vehicle and the link word***, such as **like, as, as though, as like, such as, as… as** and etc. In example given above "*that guy"* – is tenor, *a "fruitcake"* – is vehicle and *as… as* is link words.

So, the structure of simile is **A is like B**. As well as a metaphor, simile divided **semantically** into: ***original and trite.*** Trite similes fixed in dictionaries and called *cliches*. And **structurally** could be ***ordinary and disguised***. Disguised similes accompanied by notional words as **to seem, to look like, to appear, to ressemble** and others. Even though both similes and metaphors are forms of comparison. Similes use **“like”** or **“as”** to make a comparison, while metaphors say that one thing simply is another thing. Metaphors, therefore, are harder to spot.

![Let's discuss Simile](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/molotorenkok/lz9G26rJg42fLzY7gMgn3tEcxJr04j.jpg)

This time I decided to look for unusual similes in songs that I listening to. Here they are:

*1. «I spin, colliding into sound*

***Like** whales beneath me diving down»*

from the song **"Into The Ocean"** by **Blue October **[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUGhQyqJSFc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUGhQyqJSFc)

*2. «You are **as** subtle **as** a brick to the small of my back»* from the song **There's No "I" In Team** by **Taking Back Sunday**

3. «*A woman needs a man **like a** fish needs a bicycle»* from the song **Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World** by **U2**

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2dL-DjAkek](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2dL-DjAkek)

Actually it is famous and popular slogan among feminists, suggesting that men are superfluous to women's needs. (Found this information here [http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/414150.html](http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/414150.html))

Later, **U2** used the phrase in their song *Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World.*

4. *“She's got a body **like** an hourglass*

*It's tickin' like a clock”*

from the song **Misery Business** by **Paramore**

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEk-ZQ7Ptgo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEk-ZQ7Ptgo)** **

5. *"The chemistry between liars like you and me ignites **like** gasoline" *from the song **"Photographs And Gasoline"** by Framing Hanley [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L-HMc4-IuI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L-HMc4-IuI)

This is the most interesting example))) "*The chemistry between"* is **love affair between a couple and they are** just using each other... I think there's a simile that feelings are ignites like gasoline. Two unlike objects, in fact feelings cannot ignite.

Hope, you like it!

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