Images are often presented through figures of speech like simile and metaphor. |
When it is wet, this snakelike body is very slippery, long ago giving rise to the simile, slippery as an eel. |
When we are done, we will have a purer English, free of all nasty things like metaphor and simile and aestheticism and colour. |
The plastic power cord consisting of fine cables may be referring to the simile in the hadith. |
Equally halting, the ants simile in canto XXVI represents the occasional conflict between narrative clarity and structural exigency. |
Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. |