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

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The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem attributed to Homer, detailing the events of the Trojan War, focusing on the conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans. more

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“The purpose of a simile is to encourage the listener's imagination by likening something in the narrative of the heroic past to something which is directly within his own experience; and so the majority of Homeric similes are drawn from everyday life. This means, that they, like Akhilleus' shield, give us a view of the world lying beyond the war, the world that existed in the poet's own day and long after him.”

Literature Simile

Book:The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 5: Books 17-20

Source: The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 5: Books 17-20

“We can make the most of the Earth and benefit from its beauty, but in such a way that we respect the Earth, just as a bee respects the flower.”

Conservation Simile Environmentalism

Book:Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet

Source: Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet

“I stand between them in the elevator like we’re three mismatched garden gnomes.”

Metaphor Simile

Book:All Roads Lead to Rome

Source: All Roads Lead to Rome

“His steel cut through the solid armor like scissors to paper, breaking the rules of rock beating scissors.”

Action Witty Clever Violent Simile Descriptive

Book:The Cycle of Eden: The Young Revolution

Source: The Cycle of Eden: The Young Revolution

“I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my entire chest and filled it up.”

Simile Feeling Alive Descriptive Writing

Book:The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“There was a place inside him now that hadn't been there before. Heated, charged, angry. Coming into his presence was like stepping up to a gas heater, to a row of blue fire burning in the dark, wet curve of his eyes.”

Anger Injustice Simile Feelings And Emotions Loss Of Innocence Descriptive Writing Loss Of Hope

Book:The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“I love him whose soul is deep, even in being wounded, and who may perish through a minor matter: thus he goes willingly over the bridge. I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgets himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his going under. I love him who has a free spirit and a free heart: thus his head is only the guts of his heart; his heart, however, causes his going under. I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the cloud that lowers over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and as heralds they perish.”

Philosophy

Book:Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“We’re not a pack,” Leon said, waving a hand dismissively. “We’re a pride. But instead of a King with a bunch of lionesses we have a Queen with a bunch of Lions.” “I’m not a fucking Lion,” Ryder disagreed. “You are. You’re Scar, Dante’s Mufasa and I’m Simba and Gabe is Zazu”

Humor Simile

Book:Vicious Fae

Source: Vicious Fae

“And standing in that stunning yard, with flowers and leaves and birds and a tree and a bunny somewhere close, maybe, but hiding, sadness pushed the beauty of this place back like a curtain.”

Simile

Book:Remember Us

Source: Remember Us

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