Essays on Simile

Introduction Our thoughts and imagination can be in our favor as a blessing or against us as a curse, as we determine how we shape our thoughts and what we prefer to think, imagine and dream about. Whether these thoughts are delightful or frightening, its…

I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o’er vales and hills, In these lines the writer says that he is wandering lonely as a cloud which floats over valleys and hills. How can a human have clouds’ characteristics, but we understand it…

Similes Similes are quite often used within the short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter”. An example of this can be identified in the title, which can also be interpreted as: “Like a lamb to the slaughter” the lamb in the story is used as a…

“Now you think you’ll shuffle off and get away after that impudence? Oh, no you don’t! The stool he let fly hit the man’s right shoulder on the packed muscle under the shoulder blade – like solid rock, for all the effect one saw (1030,…

Just as some writers prefer using metaphors over similes in their literary works, Homer prefers using similes in his. In his epic story, The Iliad, one of the major themes which can be found throughout the entire book is power; the power the gods possess,…

To illustrate “the old Lie: Dulce et decorum est/Pro matria mori” (Owen “Dulce et Decorum Est” 27-28), Owen uses alliteration and simile. First, Owen uses alliteration to show that it is not sweet and proper to die for your country. The poem is about “the…