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Understanding Similes in Literature

This document contains several examples of similes used to describe natural elements and human features. Similes directly compare two different things using "like" or "as", such as describing lips as red as roses, hair as dark as hyacinth blossoms, and a rose turning color like the flush in a bridegroom's face when kissing the bride. The examples show similes being used to poetically depict appearances, movements, smells, sounds and the changing hues of flowers.

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Understanding Similes in Literature

This document contains several examples of similes used to describe natural elements and human features. Similes directly compare two different things using "like" or "as", such as describing lips as red as roses, hair as dark as hyacinth blossoms, and a rose turning color like the flush in a bridegroom's face when kissing the bride. The examples show similes being used to poetically depict appearances, movements, smells, sounds and the changing hues of flowers.

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Similes

His hair is dark as the hyacinth-blossom, and his lips are red as the rose of his
desire: but passion made his face like pale ivory, and sorrow has set her seal upon
his brow.
She passed through the grove like a shadow, and like a shadow she sailed across
the garden.
“My roses are white,” it answered; “as white as the foam of the sea, and whiter
than the snow upon the mountain.
“My roses are yellow,” it answered; “as yellow as the hair of the mermaiden
who sits upon an amber throne, and yellower than the daffodil that blooms in the
meadow before the mower comes with his scythe.
“My roses are red,” it answered; “as red as the feet of the dove, and redder than
the great fans of coral that wave and wave in the ocean cavern.
She swept over the garden like a shadow, and like a shadow she sailed through
the grove.
Flame-coloured are his wings, and coloured like flame is his body.
His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like frankincense.
So the Nightingale sang to the Oak-tree, and her voice was like water bubbling
from silver jar.
And on the topmost spray of the Rose-tree there blossomed a marvelous rose,
petal followed petal, as song followed song.
Pale was it, as first, as the mist that hangs over tha rive- pale as the feet of the
morning, and silver as the wings of the dawn, as the shadow of a rose in water
pool, so was the rose that blossomed on the topmost spray of the Tree.
And a delicate flush of pink came into the leaves of the rose, like the flush in the
face of the bridegroom when he kisses the lips of the bride.

And the marvelous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky.

Simile Definition
A simile is a figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities
between two different things. Unlike a metaphor, a simile draws resemblance with
the help of the words “like” or “as.” Therefore, it is a direct comparison.

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