simile
Example Sentences
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In a 1944 letter, he noted that he sometimes found Welty’s gorgeous metaphors and similes a distraction, “touching something outside the story so vividly that for a moment the mind shifts away from the theme.”
We talked about all sorts of things, and he loved it when I enthused about a simile or some syntactic tour de force.
From Washington Post
Raymond Chandler’s plots sometimes go a little awry, but his flair for startling metaphor and simile and his compelling detective Marlowe make the stories endlessly enjoyable.
From New York Times
Wright transforms Caravaggio’s theatrical chiaroscuro lighting technique, popularized in the 16th and 17th centuries as a religious simile for spiritual illumination, into a metaphor of rational enlightenment.
From Los Angeles Times
See if you can include a simile, a metaphor or maybe some imagery to evoke the five senses.
From New York Times
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