Article: Similar similes.(Skill: Use Figurative Language)

Article: Simile Software Releases Simile Media Server.
Business Wire;  September 27, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 2001 Simile Media Server Intelligently Connects Content ... Services to Maximize Revenue from Content Simile Software, the emerging leader in unstructured ... announced the immediate availability of Simile Media Server. Simile Media Server helps ...

Article: Effective Simile and Effective Act: Psalm 109, Numbers 5, ...
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Every language uses similes. Not only do they ... commonly known, a simile is a figure of speech ... particular class of similes in the Hebrew Bible ... this topic. The simile considered here can ... indicates that these similes are linked to the ... Hillers's "effective simile" types. In ...

Article: Similes on the Internet have explanations
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  February 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... hypothesis about metaphors, similes, and explanations ... sentences on the Internet. A simile is a figurative comparison ... crime is a disease. Similes imitate literal comparisons ... the connection between similes and metaphors is still ... either a metaphor or a simile using the same word ...

Article: Great Simile Contest Is Upon Us Again
Chicago Sun-Times;  October 22, 1995 ;     696 words ... ... in mind that the best similes are short similes. Ken Burger, sports ... Courier, fashioned a nice simile at the time of the Ryder ... things make the best similes. In our everyday world ... moving clouds. The good simile is packed into a sentence ...

Article: Pre-facing simile vehicles in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's ...
Style;  December 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... argues, but between "illustrative simile, and modeling simile or metaphor." It is the latter that ... in a modeling than in an illustrative simile. The most effective and original modeling similes, as Eva Kittay explains, are those ...

Article: BEST SIMILES COMPARE FAMILIAR OBJECTS, HAVE A NICE ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  March 16, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... ready to take a shot at a simile. The best similes are based upon familiar ... My point: The good similes compare familiar objects ... worms and a sofa. Good similes have a nice cadence ... stethoscope: Have you made the simile work?

Article: Here's a Contest as Exciting as a Shapely Simile
Chicago Sun-Times;  August 29, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... year we held a Great Simile Contest. I invited ... try their hand at similes for "rough ... part in the Great Simile Contest. Most contestants ... shot at all four similes, so we looked at ... remember that similes can go either way. There is the Simile Straight - as exciting ...