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Topic: Similes

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  Metaphor Simile    Simile poems  

 
 
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The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:Robert Frost,  Carl Jung,  T S Eliot
Intelligence:Genius
Personality:Nostalgic
Favorite author(s):Dante Alighieri,  Alice Walker,  Virginia Woolf
Favorite body part(s):Brain
Favorite actor(s):James Dean
Favorite great thinker(s):Richard Dawkins,  Timothy Leary
Favorite movie(s):As Good as it Gets
Favorite philosopher(s):Nietzsche
Favorite quote(s):"I'd rather have thirty minutes of something wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special"
 
 
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The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

It brings together many of Swami's similes and parables drawn from nature and uses them as a springboard for spiritual growth.
Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster

Ramakrishna has omitted the similes of the broom and of the pestle and the mortar to avoid the association of the parable with profane sexuality.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

There is an extensive use of imagery associated with hunting, battles and many similes, metaphors, personification and this is used to produce an effect on the reader.
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

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.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Analogies , metaphors, and similes help learners to associate new concepts with their previous knowledge or experience.
Mark Harris,
Priest

Therefore,only similes, however incomplete or unrepresentative they may be, have been offered by holy persons.
Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

Include a keyword's similes and true inflections in an Inflection List that makes searching by any related term find the information you want.
Abu Kashir,
Gas Station Attendant

The images, similes, metaphors and allegories employed by Sachal give him a prominent place in Sindhi literature after Shah Latif.
Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator

Similes and metaphors are not just descriptive tools for narrative passages--we tend to use them when we speak, too.
Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent

Ionus Is the narration really Homeric, or is it just putting loads of improbable similes and references to Greek Gods in the story?
 
 
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Frogs
2005-05-05 20:35:58
do you have a simile peom on frogs??
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