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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Using metaphors, similes, analogies, and other symbolic literary conventions without thinking each one out logically beforehand is like a novice taking apart your computer and rewiring.
Metaphors and similes require more work in early literatures because the "familiar" referent of the vehicle may no longer be familiar to us.
They are masters at metaphors and similes.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Shared metaphors and similes led to shared perceptions of the meaning of the texture of life.
Similes and metaphors are comparisons.
Identify similes and metaphors.
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Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator
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Similes and metaphors are not just descriptive tools for narrative passages--we tend to use them when we speak, too.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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Similes, metaphors, limericks and much more are a few of the many things we've learned in our wonderful poetry section in writing.
Thousands of metaphors, similes and other word combinations have been compiled by the rhyme of the last word in each phrase and sorted into sixteen sections.
Such use of similes and metaphors would not be used in Magical Realist literature.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Metaphors and similes are two examples of a particular kind of figure of speech that deals with comparisons.
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