0 a form of expression using ’like’ or ’as’, in which one thing is compared to another which it only resembles in one or a small number of ways -- přirovnání
‘Her hair was like silk’ is a simile.
Yet the same chapter also employs some very good similes, such as grammar as a sieve.
A third factor is the degree of iconicity between the images and their referents in the analogical trope, be it metaphor or simile.
Likewise, 77% (2164) of ironic simile types are disambiguated automatically.
The next three chapters are concerned with various forms of figurative language including metaphors and similes, idioms, and proverbs.
Yet lyric epiphany is itself an implicit simile or analogy.
Where evident, the metaphysical dexterity of their similes rubs off on the purveyor.
One of these factors is the relation between simile and metaphor.
In the above two sentences, the tactile perception was assessed with a metaphor, or more precisely, with a simile.
