For questions about similes. A simile is a rhetorical device that directly mentions a similarity of two different things, for example: 'as red as wine' or 'slow like a tortoise'.
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Is this a simile or a metaphor?
'Houses sprouted like mushroom colonies'
I am not sure if this is a simile or a metaphor. Please help. Ty!
user394992
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I need a simile for clutching something
Can someone help me? I'm writing a paper about the Grand Canyon and in it the main characters brother is is clutching the rail on the sky walk like a ____. I need a simile for this.
user286980
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why rocks in "dumb as rocks"?
The online slang dictionary defines dumb as a rock as someone who is very unintelligent, but why rocks?
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Is "you look like your dad" a simile?
Is "you look like your dad", or indeed any statement of looking like something in which the description is meant literally (unlike e.g. you look like hell), a simile?
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Looking For a Simile For Something That Follows You Around
I'm writing a blog post about the impacts of an autoimmune disease. The sentence I'm trying to construct looks like this:
"The disease importunately follows me around like a god damn..."
I'm struggling to come up with something better than "...…
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SIMILE HELP: Gripping the wheel tightly like
I need an expression to be a simile to gripping the wheel of a car tightly.
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