simile
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The simile is arresting: modern European proponents of welfare-state liberalism likened to a dying class of 19th-century hereditary nobles, confident in their rightness and desperate to rest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
I love that simile because she did refer to her wardrobe as an “impenetrable fortress.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
“The simile with the DNA is more a metaphor but in some way, there exists the connection as mentioned for solving paths.”
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2024
Mario Cuomo over the grammatical difference between a simile and metaphor.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
“Weathercock can without the wind,” suggested Jo, as he paused for a simile.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Jerry will point out poetic elements of the songs, explain rhythm, similes and metaphors, internal rhymes, clichés, split perspective and different types of rhyme schemes.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026
Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana is notable for his comic similes, but not much else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
His witty similes and graceful prose have arguably done more to open minds to the potential intellectual value of crime fiction than any other writing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
Another song, “Runaway Train,” is an upbeat collaboration with Jon Randall that wouldn’t be out of place on mainstream country radio, savoring its similes: “You’ve got a heart like a runaway train/screaming down the mountainside.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
But whenever you hear bad poets declaiming their bad poetry, filled with foolish similes and ugly rhymes, you will know which of the meads they have tasted.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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