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Vsuresh Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

implied simile

Hi

Please tell me if this is an implied simile

"Pierre’s huge walrus mustache was pure white now..."
  

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I don't think so. A simile is a rhetorical figure expressing comparison or likeness that directly compares two things through some connective word such as like, as, so, than, or a verb such as resembles.

  • I don't think so.
  • A simile is a rhetorical figure expressing comparison or likeness that directly compares two things through some connective word such as like, as, so, than, or a verb such as resembles.
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I don't think so.

A simile is a rhetorical figure expressing comparison or likeness that directly compares two things through some connective word such as like, as, so, than, or a verb such as resembles.
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Thank you, AlpheccaStars.
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I am unable to differentiate between implied simile and implied metaphor.
Please give me an example.
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vsureshI am unable to differentiate between implied simile and implied metaphor.
That's understandable because the connector of the canonical forms is missing in the implied forms.

X is like Y. (Simile; connector: is like)
An X is a Y. (Metaphor; connector: is)

I suppose that you sometimes have to make a gues
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vsureshmetaphor
But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. (Shakespeare)
Henry has no tact or grace. He's just a bull in a china shop.
vsureshsimile
The Akan king is like an elephant, the strongest animal of the grasslands. No one challenges him..
But the Akan ki
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Thank you, AlpheccaStars.
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Thank you,CJ.
That is what I too thought.
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No....that phrase is walrus moustache. It's a metaphor, not a simile .Always remeber, metaphor is not an implied metaphor . Google is wrong here .metaphor is metaphor .it never becomes any simile.

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