DEVICE - SIMILE

PREPARED BY: Kasmah Pakar

DEFINITION OF SIMILE
A simile is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that have something in common, often introduced with the words "like or "as. A simile is a comparison used to attract the attention of the reader and describe something in descriptive terms.

EXAMPLES OF SIMILE
He fights like a lion. The rain falls like the sun, rising upon the mountains. The water is like the sun. Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong. My heart is like an open highway . Love is like a fire.

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. Sweet as the last smile of sunset. As sweet as spring's first song heard in the grove's retreat. Watch your step when you come in. The doorway is as black as the north pole in winter. She walks as gracefully and elegantly as a cat.

WITHOUT LIKE OR AS
Similes are sometimes made without using the words "like" or "as. This often occurs when making comparisons of differing values. Examples: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. I'm happier than a tornado in a trailer park.

Norman was more anxious to leave the area than Herman after seeing ten abominable snowmen charging his way with hunger in their eyes. But this truth is more obvious than the sunhere it is; look at it; its brightness blinds you.

EXAMPLEs OF POEM THAT USE SIMILE

A RED, RED ROSE by ROBERT BURNS Oh my Love is like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: Oh my Love is like the melody, That's sweetly play'd in tune. As fair art thou, my bonie lass, So deep in love am I; And I will love thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry.

Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi' the sun; And I will love thee still, my dear, While the sands o' life shall run.

And fare-thee-weel, my only Love! And fare-thee-weel, a while! And I will come again, my Love, Tho' it ware ten thousand mile!
1932

A DREAM DEFERRED by LANGSTON HUGHES

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a soreAnd then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar overlike a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

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