simile

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(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) 1 C! Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:08:42

Simi"*le (?), n.; pl. Similes (#). [L., from similis. See Similar.] Rhet.

A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.

A good swift simile, but something currish. Shak.

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That's not ironic; that's just bloody stupid	November 23, 2007	Jacob Marley's Chain	John Searle on Metaphor
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cliché	Satire	Riddle Technique	Choosing to be gay
London's calling, and it's calling you gay	synecdoche	Limerick	Time flies like an arrow

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