>>Simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things, usually by using words such as; Though both similes and metaphors are a means of comparison, similes indirectly compare the two ideas and allow them to remain distinct, despite their similarities, metaphorically compare two things directly. For example, a simile that compares a person with a bullet would go as follows: Chris was a runner record as fast as a bullet.
A metaphor might read something like; When Chris ran, it was a race along the bullet track.; A mnemonic for a simile is that, a simile is similar or related.
Definition:
>> Simile is when you compare two nouns (people, places or things) that are unlike, or example, water is like the sun. is a comparison example, because water and sun have little in common, and are still being compared among themselves.
The if also part of what makes this stanza a comparison example.
The rain falls like the sun rising over the montanhas.Aqui is another example, comparing the rain that falls to the sunrise.
Good similes compare two very different names.
>>A figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by like or as
>>Examples:
a)"Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong."
b)"You know life, life is rather like opening a tin of sardines. We're all of us looking for the key."
C)"When Lee Mellon finished the apple he smacked his lips together like a pair of cymbals."
D)"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."
E)"Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when we want to move the stars to pity."
F)Shrek: Ogres are like onions.
Donkey: They stink?
Shrek: Yes. No!
Donkey: They make you cry?
Shrek: No!
Donkey: You leave them out in the sun, they get all brown, start sprouting little white hairs.
>>"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 deliberate elaboration of a correspondence, often pursued for its own sake. But a Metaphor is the swift illumination of an equivalence. Two images, or an idea and an image, stand equal and opposite; clash together and respond significantly, surprising the reader with a sudden light."
"Most theorists have thought that metaphor is somehow a matter of bringing out similarities between things or states of affairs. Donald Davidson [above] argues that this 'bringing out' is purely causal, and in no way linguistic; hearing the metaphor just somehow has the effect of making us see a similarity. The Naive Simile Theory goes to the opposite extreme, having it that metaphors simply abbreviate explicit literal comparisons. Both views are easily seen to be inadequate. According to the Figurative Simile Theory, on the other hand, metaphors are short for similes themselves taken figuratively. This view avoids the three most obvious objections to the Naive Simile Theory, but not all the tough ones."
