| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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(s m´ l ) (KEY) [Lat.,=likeness], in rhetoric, a figure of speech in which an object is explicitly compared to another object. Robert Burns’s poem “A Red Red Rose” contains two straightforward similes:My love is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June:
My love is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune. |
The epic, or Homeric, simile is an elaborate, formal, and sustained simile derived from those of Homer. |
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