Figurative Language

[Maryam.]

Figurative Speech uses language in original, imaginative ways to create exciting concrete images. Two frequently used figures of speech are similes and metaphors.
A Simile explicitly compares one thing to another, using the word like or as; as in:

Sharp as flint...solitary as an oyster.
(From A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens)

A Metaphor is a figure of speech that implies a comparison by speaking of one thing as if it were another, without using the word like or as:

Where I first bow'd my knee
Unto this king of smiles, this Bolingbroke...
Why, what a candy deal of courtesy
This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!
(From King Henry IV, by William Shakespeare)

[Maryam.]

:D

[Catamorandi]

Good definitions also

[Tiffany]

Thanks! Even though I already knew that...

[Maryam.]

Tiffany wrote: "Thanks! Even though I already knew that..."

Haaha, I guess everyone does

[Tiffany]

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[Maryam.]

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[Tiffany]

Did you?

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[Maryam.]

Haha, No
Oh and I clicked

[Tiffany]

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