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WHAT ARE SIMILIES?
A comparison between two distinctly different things is explicitly indicated by the words "like" or "as". A simple example is Robert Burns "O my love's like a red, red rose". Another example from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" specifies the features ("green") in which icebergs are similar to emerald:
And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
As green as emerald.


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