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Whether it invokes hard work or merely a hen-house, a good simile is like a good picture-it's worth a thousand words. To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate.

Whether it invokes hard work or merely a hen-house, a good simile is like a good picture-it's worth a thousand words. Your thoughts will never be as tedious as a twice-told tale or dry as the Congressional Record.

Xlviii, 950 pages ; 24 cm. "A collection of more than 16,000 comparison phrases from ancient times to the present, compiled from books, folklore, magazines, newspapers, plays, politics, stage, screen. "A collection of more than 16,000 comparison phrases from ancient times to the present, compiled from books, folklore, magazines, newspapers, plays, politics, stage, screen, and television and arranged under more than 500 thematic categories. Includes bibliographical references (pages 777-830) and index.

Similes Dictionary Hardcover – April, 1988. It is similar to Ruth Paris and Robert Baldwin's The Book of Similes (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982) but much briefer. Attribution is to author (but not usually to individual work) or to such origins as American colloquialism, Chinese saying, or Anonymous. Coverage is idiosyncratic, with George Garrett and T. Coraghessan Boyle among the most quoted. Better suited for browsing, this is for exhaustive collections or where there is a need.

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Similes dictionary, by Elyse Sommer. 6. Combine similes with other figures of speech. British playwright Mike Bartlett used the metaphor of a cock fight for his 2012 play about a fraught sexual relationship

Similes dictionary, by Elyse Sommer. pages cm. Includes index. British playwright Mike Bartlett used the metaphor of a cock fight for his 2012 play about a fraught sexual relationship. A de- scription of an attractive young men starts with a simile- Some people might think you were scrawny but I think you’re like a picture drawn with a pencil -and concludes with a metaphor: I like it.

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