| Images are often presented through figures of speech like simile and metaphor. |
| Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. |
| Equally halting, the ants simile in canto XXVI represents the occasional conflict between narrative clarity and structural exigency. |
| The plastic power cord consisting of fine cables may be referring to the simile in the hadith. |
| In those early books, the poems feel like perfectly calibrated contraptions of metaphor and simile. |
| When it is wet, this snakelike body is very slippery, long ago giving rise to the simile, slippery as an eel. |
