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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
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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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