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title: "week 4: Simile"
description: "Hello, bloggers) Simile – the imaginative comparison of two unlike objects, which belong to differen..."
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# week 4: Simile

> Hello, bloggers) Simile – the imaginative comparison of two unlike objects, which belong to differen...

***Hello, bloggers)***

***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**

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![week 4: Simile](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/meiramgul_m/g86lNLCITH0eueVPNJ37AUPXSi4JXC.jpg)

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Types of simile:

- *Semantically:* Genuine

- Trite

- *Structurally:* Ordinary

- Disguised

 

There are some examples of trite similes:

![week 4: Simile](http://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/meiramgul_m/lTn99WSK3f2fSHE66p27CEd2krSh1f.gif)

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?

![week 4: Simile](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/meiramgul_m/ZHFnX6gZsXpe9hzm1mPJ39758LjwIE.jpg)

Thank you for attention!)

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