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"Writers sometimes use similes and metaphors to help create a vivid image in the reader's mind. A simile compares two things using the word like or as. Simile: My father grumbles like a bear in the mornings. A metaphor also compares two things, but it does not use the word like or as. Metaphor: My father is a bear in the mornings. (English Language Arts Skills & Strategies: Level 8, Saddleback, 2005) "The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed. It would seem natural to think that simile, being simpler, is older." (F.L. Lucas, Style. Macmillan, 1955) "Simile and Metaphor differ only in degree of stylistic refinement. The Simile, in which a comparison is made directly between two objects, belongs to an earlier stage of literary expression: it is the…

A figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by like or as. From Latin, "likeness" or "comparison" Examples: "Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong." (slogan of Pan-American Coffee Bureau) "You know life, life is rather like opening a tin of sardines. We're all of us looking for the key." (Alan Bennett, Beyond the Fringe, 1960) "When Lee Mellon finished the apple he smacked his lips together like a pair of cymbals." (Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General From Big Sur, 1964) "He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow." (George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859) From Latin, "likeness" or "comparison" Examples:"Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong."(slogan of Pan-Amer…