FIGURES BASED ON SIMILARITIES:
● Simile
● Metaphor
● Allegory
● Parable
● Fable
SIMILE: comparison made between two unlike or unallied ideas or objects, by the
word “Like” or “as”.
Examples:
Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart.
- Wordsworth
He doth beside the narrow world like a Colossus.
- Shakespeare
Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb,
I arise and unbuild it again.
- Shelley
Simile can be classified into two:
Simple similes and Epic similes.
Epic or Homeric similes: Sometimes, similes are expanded so much that the main
idea is lost and many irrelevant details are introduced. These are known as Epic or
Homeric similes.
Examples can be found in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Arnold’s Shorab and
Rustum.
METAPHOR: an implied comparison is made between two unlike or unallied
ideas or objects, while dropping the use of words ‘as’, ‘so’, ‘like’.
Examples:
The ice mast high came floating by.
- Coleridge
This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit.
- Shakespeare
His crypt the cloudy canopy.
- Hardy
● Simile
● Metaphor
● Allegory
● Parable
● Fable
SIMILE: comparison made between two unlike or unallied ideas or objects, by the
word “Like” or “as”.
Examples:
Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart.
- Wordsworth
He doth beside the narrow world like a Colossus.
- Shakespeare
Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb,
I arise and unbuild it again.
- Shelley
Simile can be classified into two:
Simple similes and Epic similes.
Epic or Homeric similes: Sometimes, similes are expanded so much that the main
idea is lost and many irrelevant details are introduced. These are known as Epic or
Homeric similes.
Examples can be found in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Arnold’s Shorab and
Rustum.
METAPHOR: an implied comparison is made between two unlike or unallied
ideas or objects, while dropping the use of words ‘as’, ‘so’, ‘like’.
Examples:
The ice mast high came floating by.
- Coleridge
This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit.
- Shakespeare
His crypt the cloudy canopy.
- Hardy
