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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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I am confused of whether the sentence "he was as straight as a circle" is a metaphor or a simile. I have asked multiple people but have found no answer.
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I’ve always understood as one man to mean “all acting together, unanimously” (Cambridge: “If a group of people do something as one man, they do it together at exactly the same time.”) Recently I came ...
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Today Elon Musk was reported as having used the expression: “He is dumber than a sack of bricks”. The saying strikes me as a bit odd, and checking a few dictionaries it appears that like a bag, a ...
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I'm writing an essay about the amendments and how the situation is different now than when they were created and because of those changes, the amendments must also change to protect the citizen's ...
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Often metaphors are likenesses where there's a direct connection. For example on the news somebody describes a crash/ earthquake/ explosion as It was like a bomb going off. What about where the two ...
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The Tempest, Act I, scene 2, lines 326-331: For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All ...
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In various language literature, there could be idioms, proverbs, figure-of-speech that lose their true meaning because it meant something in a different time period Or it was being translated from ...
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I initially found it in a 17th century English-Dutch Dictionary, page 37 I then found it in https://www.bartleby.com/ As bare as a bird’s tail. 1361 Twelve Mery Gestys of the Widow Edyth, 1525, by ...
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I’m trying to use a metaphor along the lines of something ripe for exploration something multifaceted something full of many possibilities Blank canvas roughly fits some of the above, but it’s very ...
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“I’m letting the idea of hacking the robot go when we hear a buzz, like a delivery drone.”
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I wanna understand the meaning of the background check? Like I don’t know how to do one or even get one. I really want to know the purpose of a background check.
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I would like to know the history of this idiom because I have heard it so many times throughout the year, especially in movies. I understand the meaning of it as "very tough". However, I am ...
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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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In this article: https://blog.prepscholar.com/simile-vs-metaphor The author uses a popular Katy Perry lyric "baby you're a firework" as an example of a metaphor. Katy Perry could just have ...
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I'm looking for a simile or noun that can be used to describe something shaking violently. For example, The room shook as hard as --insert thing that shakes violently--.
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