JANINE: Big crowd in tonight, Jeff. JEFF: Including Bob the superfan. Bob here has never actually seen Jess perform. JANINE: Let’s help him picture her in his head - we can use metaphors and similes.

An elegant reflection on experience and imagination complicates a very familiar figure of speech Simile How does a simile work? — Place something next to something and say, here. (The here is where ...

Simile, to refresh memories, is a favorite rhetorical device of writers that compares two essentially unlike things that nonetheless have similar characteristics: The quarterback was like a locomotive ...

Aristotle concluded in the 4th century BC that “the difference is but slight” between similes and metaphors. After all, the metaphor “he’s a bear in the morning,” means the same as the simile “he’s ...

A simile is a comparison that commonly uses the key words "like" or "as." For example: She is as cute as a button. A metaphor is when a word or phrase is applied to something else. For example: She is ...