Simile

SIMILE

 Similes, pronounced //'si-mi-lees'//, are comparisons that show how two things that are not alike in most ways are **similar in one important way**. Similes are a way to describe something. Authors use them to make their writing more interesting or entertaining. Similes use the words “as” or “like” to make the connection between the two things that are being compared. For example: //"My father has a mind like a computer."// The father's mind is being compared to a computer. The father can think in a powerful manner that resembles the way a computer operates, not that he is like a computer in any other way.

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