Simile

//__ Simile __//


 * Definition:: A figure of speech where to unlikely things are explicitly compared using "like" or "as" **


 * Origin::1350-1400 Middle English: Latin //similis// **


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Definition taken from Dictionary.reference.com


 * Examples ** from text: In the first example, from //The Book of the Grotesque,// the main character is compared to a pregnant woman in that he feels something inside of him.

1) He was like a pregnant woman, only that the thing inside him was not a baby but a youth.

2)

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