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“For as an essential characteristic of the formula is repeat, an essential of simile is uniqueness.”

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“Simile, with its relatives, is as essential to Homer as formula. It has been more frequently noticed, but even more seriously misunderstood. Simile in Homer is not decoration; it is dynamic invention, and because of this no successor has been able to swing it in the same grand manner.”

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Source: The Iliad of Homer

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