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  2. Simile - Wikipedia

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    A simile (/ ˈ s ɪ m əl i /) is a type of figure of speech that directly compares two things. [1] [2] Similes are often contrasted with metaphors, where similes necessarily compare two things using words such as "like", "as", while metaphors often create an implicit comparison (i.e. saying something "is" something else).

  3. Category:Metaphor - Wikipedia

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    A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object. Metaphor is a type of analogy and is closely related to other rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via association, comparison or resemblance including allegory, hyperbole, and simile.

  4. Stylistic device - Wikipedia

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    The easiest stylistic device to identify is a simile, signaled by the use of the words "like" or "as". A simile is a comparison used to attract the reader's attention and describe something in descriptive terms. Example: "From up here on the fourteenth floor, my brother Charley looks like an insect scurrying among other insects." (from "Sweet ...

  5. Metaphor - Wikipedia

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    A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. [1] It may provide (or obscure) clarity or identify hidden similarities between two different ideas. Metaphors are usually meant to create a likeness or an analogy. [2]

  6. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Simile: comparison between two things using like or as. Snowclone : alteration of cliché or phrasal template . Syllepsis : the use of a word in its figurative and literal sense at the same time or a single word used in relation to two other parts of a sentence although the word grammatically or logically applies to only one.

  7. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Catachresis – the inexact use of a similar word in place of the proper one to create an unlikely metaphor; for example (from Rhetorica ad Herennium), "The power of man is short" or "the long wisdom in the man". Charisma – an attribute that allows a speaker's words to become powerful.

  8. Tertium comparationis - Wikipedia

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    According to Jülicher, a parable or similitude (extended simile or metaphor) has three parts: a picture part (Bildhälfte), a reality part (Sachhälfte), and the point of comparison (tertium comparationis) between the picture part and the reality part. "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then ...

  9. Comparison - Wikipedia

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    The primary use of comparison in literature is with the simile, a figure of speech that directly compares two things. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Similes are a form of metaphor that explicitly use connecting words (such as like, as, so, than, or various verbs such as resemble ) [ 12 ] though these specific words are not always necessary. [ 14 ]