simile
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simile |
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accordance, affinity, agreement, alikeness, allegory, alliance, alliteration, allusion, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, analogy, anaphora, anastrophe, antiphrasis, antithesis,
antonomasia, aping, apophasis, aporia,
aposiopesis, apostrophe, approach, approximation, assimilation, balancing, catachresis, chiasmus, circumlocution, climax, closeness, community, comparability, comparative anatomy, comparative degree, comparative grammar, comparative judgment, comparative linguistics,
comparative literature, comparative method, compare,
comparing, comparison, conformity,
confrontation, confrontment, contrast, contrastiveness, conversion, copying, correlation, correspondence, distinction, distinctiveness, ecphonesis, emphasis, exclamation, gemination, hypallage, hyperbaton, hyperbole, identity, imitation, inversion, irony, likeness, likening, litotes, malapropism, matching, meiosis, metaphor, metonymy, mimicking, nearness, onomatopoeia, opposing, opposition, oxymoron,
parallelism, paregmenon, parenthesis, parity, periphrasis, personification, pleonasm, preterition, prolepsis, proportion, regression, relation, repetition, resemblance, sameness, sarcasm, semblance, similarity, similitude, simulation, spoonerism, syllepsis,
symploce, synecdoche, trope of comparison, weighing, zeugma
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Main entries similar to: simile
accordance, affinity, agreement, allegory, alliance,
analogy, approach, approximation, assimilation, balancing,
closeness, community, comparison, conformity, confrontation,
contrast, correlation, correspondence, figure of speech, identity,
image, imitation, likeness, malapropism, matching, metaphor, nearness, opposing, opposition, parallelism, parity, proportion, relation, resemblance, sameness, semblance, similarity, similitude, simulation, speech
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