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similes

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The work abounds in metaphors and similes and brings home the thought that all living beings will eventually evolve into perfect beings.
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I made nine pages of closely written notes on its various metaphors, insights and similes.
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The work is interspersed with plethora of beautiful similes here and there.
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Rather, he can focus on the theme and illustrating aspects of it with diverse, often far-fetched similes, metaphors, and symbols.
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Constructions such as similes and metaphors are known as figurative speech.
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He was known to be an imaginative and enlightening clinician and had a reputation for sometimes inscrutable similes which nonetheless accomplished their purposes.
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Metaphors and similes are two types of figurative analogies.
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Ironic similes are a form of verbal irony where a speaker intends to communicate the opposite of what they mean.
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He expressed defiance, determination, hope, and flavoured these speeches with comic similes and anecdotes.
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He uses similes and metaphorical phrases to describe the purity of the law.
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