Examples of 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.