A simile is a comparison using like or as.
As an example: The boy ran fast like a cheetah.
An example from online: "Holding all I used to be sorry about like the new moon holding water." -Faulkner (Sound and the Fury)
The Sound and the Fury is a personal favorite book of mine.
http://classiclit.about.com/od/soundandthefurywf/a/aa_sound_quotes.htm
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What I love most about similes is that they clarify what exactly the author has in mind. I'm kind of slow, so sometimes I need examples to really picture things in my head.
ReplyDeleteSimiles work well because they are often paired with great imagery and like Heidi said help clarify exactly what the author has in mind.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite thing to do with similes is give completely inexplicable ones to explain difficult situations. Than people agree with me because they are to afraid admit that they have no idea what I'm talking about.
ReplyDeleteObama's health care plan is like a pimple on the face of a carpetbagger selling refrigerators to Hawaiians.
Make sense of that, I dare you.
Jake, now you just confused your readers. What is the poin of that? Isn't the goal of writing to effectively communicate with the readers?
ReplyDeleteAnd what jake is trying to communicate is that he is smarter then his reader. (: Not very useful but surely effective, even though it may be a fallacy.
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