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A simile is a figure of speech where two unlike things are compared, generally by using the word like or as. (noun)

An example of a simile is "He is as hungry as a horse."

See simile in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another, dissimilar thing by the use of like, as, etc. (Ex.: a heart as big as a whale, her tears flowed like wine)

See simile in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(sĭmˈə-lē)

noun

A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as, as in “How like the winter hath my absence been” or “So are you to my thoughts as food to life” (Shakespeare).

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