Essays on Simile

“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…