Simile

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Simile \Sim"i*le\, n.; pl. {Similes}. [L., from similis. See
     {Similar}.] (Rhet.)
     A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more
     of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical
     or imaginative comparison.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           A good swift simile, but something currish. --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  simile
       n : a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between
           things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or
           `as')

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  105 Moby Thesaurus words for "simile":
     accordance, affinity, agreement, alikeness, allegory, alliance,
     alliteration, allusion, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, analogy,
     anaphora, anastrophe, antiphrasis, antithesis, antonomasia, aping,
     apophasis, aporia, aposiopesis, apostrophe, approach,
     approximation, assimilation, balancing, catachresis, chiasmus,
     circumlocution, climax, closeness, community, comparability,
     comparative anatomy, comparative degree, comparative grammar,
     comparative judgment, comparative linguistics,
     comparative literature, comparative method, compare, comparing,
     comparison, conformity, confrontation, confrontment, contrast,
     contrastiveness, conversion, copying, correlation, correspondence,
     distinction, distinctiveness, ecphonesis, emphasis, exclamation,
     gemination, hypallage, hyperbaton, hyperbole, identity, imitation,
     inversion, irony, likeness, likening, litotes, malapropism,
     matching, meiosis, metaphor, metonymy, mimicking, nearness,
     onomatopoeia, opposing, opposition, oxymoron, parallelism,
     paregmenon, parenthesis, parity, periphrasis, personification,
     pleonasm, preterition, prolepsis, proportion, regression, relation,
     repetition, resemblance, sameness, sarcasm, semblance, similarity,
     similitude, simulation, spoonerism, syllepsis, symploce,
     synecdoche, trope of comparison, weighing, zeugma