thumb|The Madonna album Like a Virgin, in whose title track the narrative persona uses a simile, professing to be experiencing an erotic relationship "like a virgin". A simile () is a type of figure of speech that directly compares two unrelated things, using wording to explicitly make the comparison (often, with a grammatical structure of the type "x is like y"). It is usually understood specifically to entail figurative comparison: thus "a wolf is like a dog" is merely a literal comparison, whereas the figurative "a man is like a wolf" is a simile. In the words of Michael Israel, Jennifer Ri
A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two unrelated things using explicit words like "like" or "as" (for example, "a man is like a wolf"), creating a figurative rather than literal comparison. Similes matter because they help writers and speakers communicate vivid, imaginative ideas by drawing surprising connections between things we wouldn't normally think of together.
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直喩(ちょくゆ)とは、比喩の一種で、比喩であることを明示する表現をいう。明喩(めいゆ)ともいう。 それに対し、文字通りに解釈すると比喩であることがわからない比喩表現を、隠喩あるいはメタファーという。 直喩は明白なつながりのない2つの事物を比較する言い方で、典型的には「雪のように白い」「ひょうたんのような形」「死ぬほど退屈」「あの水死体は土左衛門のようだ」などの言い回しを用いて表現される。
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).