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    A simile is a figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as" to draw attention to similarities about two things that are seemingly dissimilar. "Like an old-stone savage armed" from Mending Wall by Robert Frost "When the evening is spread against the sky like a patient etherised upon a table" from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot "O my love is like a

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    A simile is a figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as" to draw attention to similarities about two things that are seemingly dissimilar. "Like an old-stone savage armed" from Mending Wall by Robert Frost "When the evening is spread against the sky like a patient etherised upon a table" from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot "O my love is like a

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    What Is Simile

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    A simile is a figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as" to draw attention to similarities about two things that are seemingly dissimilar. "Like an old-stone savage armed" from Mending Wall by Robert Frost "When the evening is spread against the sky like a patient etherised upon a table" from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot "O my love is like a

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    WHAT IS SIMILE?

    A Simile is a figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as" to draw attention to similarities about two things that are seemingly dissimilar.

    EXAMPLE OF SIMILE
    "Like an old-stone savage armed" from Mending Wall by Robert Frost

    "When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table" from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot
    "O my love is like a red, red rose" by Robert Burns

    "Idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean" from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    "Yellow butterflies flickered along the shade like flecks of sun" from The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner -- Part Two "Guiltless forever, like a tree" from Men and Women by Robert Browning

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