Simile and Metaphor

​Simile (pronounced sim-uh-lee) is a literary term where you use 'like' or 'as' to compare two different things a show a common quality between them. A simile is different from a simple comparison in that it usually compares two unrelated things. "She looks like you" is a comparison but not a simile. On the other hand, "She smiles like the sun" is a simile, as it compares a woman with something of a different kind-of sun.

​The breeze was as gentle as a butterfly.

​She danced lightly, like a fluttering butterfly.

​You are as pale as a white sheet.

​She is as fierce as a tiger.

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A figure of speech​ in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

.​ Laughter is the best medicine.

​. She is just a late boomer.

​. Is there a black sheep in your family?

​. His heart of stone surprised me.

​. I smell success in this building.

​. He is buried in the sea of paperwork.

​. There is a weight on my shoulder.

​. Time is money.