simile

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         SIMILE
A simile is a figure of speech consisting of a comparison using like or as. Well-chosen similes can be used to enliven writing or as an alternative to description using adjectives.


EXAMPLES:

He was as brave as a lion in a fight.
He swam like a fish through rough waters.

 

  Note that with the AS...AS pattern, the first AS is sometimes suppressed, for example:

•     His skin was cold as ice.

The above patterns of simile are the most common, but there are others made with adverbs or words such as than and as if, for example:

•     He ran as fast as the wind.
•     He is larger than life.
•     They ran as if for their lives.

Similes can include other figures of speech. For example, "He ran like greased lightning" is a simile that includes hyperbol (greased lightning).

Similes often make use of irony or sarcasm. In such cases they may even mean the opposite of the adjective used. Look at these examples:

• His explanation was as clear as mud. (not clear at all since mud is opaque)
• The film was about as interesting as watching a copy of Windows download. (long and boring)
• Watching the show was like watching paint dry. (very boring)

Similes are often found (and they sometimes originate) in poetry and other literature. Here are a few examples:

• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle - Irina Dunn
• Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh - Wilfred Owen
• Death has many times invited me: it was like the salt invisible in the waves - Pablo Neruda
• Guiltless forever, like a tree - Robert Browning
• Happy as pigs in mud - David Eddings
• How like the winter hath my absence been - William Shakespeare
• As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Jubilant as a flag unfurled - Dorothy Parker
• So are you to my thoughts as food to life - William Shakespeare
• Yellow butterflies flickered along the shade like flecks of sun - William Faulkner

Popular songs, too, make use of simile:

• A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle - U2
• Cheaper than a hot dog with no mustard - Beastie Boys
• I must do what's right, as sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti - Toto
• It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog - The Beatles
• Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
• Like a bat outta [out of] hell - Meat Loaf
• My heart is like an open highway - Jon Bon Jovi
• These are the seasons of emotion and like the winds they rise and fall - Led Zeppelin
• Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull