Senin, 18 April 2016

Simile

 


A simile is a figure of speech that says that one thing is like another different thing. We can use similes to make descriptions more emphatic or vivid.
We often use the words as...as and like with similes.
Common patterns for similes, with example sentences, are:
  • something [is*] AS adjective AS something
    His skin was as cold as ice.
    It felt as hard as rock.
    She looked as gentle as a lamb.
  • something [is*] LIKE something
    My love is like a red, red rose.
    These cookies taste like garbage.
    He had a temper (that was) like a volcano.
  • something [does**] LIKE something
    He eats like a pig.
    He smokes like a chimney.
    They fought like cats and dogs.
·         Here are some more examples of well known similes: 

[is] AS adjective AS something
meaning
as blind as a bat
completely blind
as cold as ice
very cold
as flat as a pancake
completely flat
as gentle as a lamb
very gentle
as light as a feather
very light
as old as the hills
very old
as sharp as a knife
very sharp
as strong as a bull
very strong
as white as snow
pure white
as wise as an owl
very wise
 
[is] LIKE something
possible meaning (depending on context)
like a rose
beautiful
like a volcano
explosive
like garbage
disgusting
like an animal
inhuman
like spaghetti
entangled
like dewdrops
sweet and pure
like golddust
precious
like a tip
very untidy (tip = garbage dump)
like a dream
wonderful, incredible
like stars
bright and beautiful
 
[does] LIKE something
meaning
to drink like a fish
to drink a lot
to eat like a bird
to eat very little
to eat like a horse
to eat a lot
to eat like a pig
to eat impolitely
to fight like cats and dogs
to fight fiercely
to sing like an angel
to sing beautifully
to sleep like a log
to sleep well and soundly
to smoke like a chimney
to smoke heavily, all the time
to soar like an eagle
to fly high and free
to work like a dog
to work very hard
     
 Note that with the AS...AS pattern, the first AS is sometimes suppressed, for example:
  •     His skin was cold as ice.
The above patterns of simile are the most common, but there are others made with adverbs or words such as than and as if, for example:
  •     He ran as fast as the wind.
  •     He is larger than life.
  •     They ran as if for their lives.
Similes can include other figures of speech. For example, "He ran like greased lightning" is a simile that includes hyperbol (greased lightning).
Similes often make use of irony or sarcasm. In such cases they may even mean the opposite of the adjective used. Look at these examples:
  • His explanation was as clear as mud. (not clear at all since mud is opaque)
  • The film was about as interesting as watching a copy of Windows download. (long and boring)
  • Watching the show was like watching paint dry. (very boring)
Similes are often found (and they sometimes originate) in poetry and other literature. Here are a few examples:
  • A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle - Irina Dunn
  • Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh - Wilfred Owen
  • Death has many times invited me: it was like the salt invisible in the waves - Pablo Neruda
  • Guiltless forever, like a tree - Robert Browning
  • Happy as pigs in mud - David Eddings
  • How like the winter hath my absence been - William Shakespeare
  • As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Jubilant as a flag unfurled - Dorothy Parker
  • So are you to my thoughts as food to life - William Shakespeare
  • Yellow butterflies flickered along the shade like flecks of sun - William Faulkner
Popular songs, too, make use of simile:
  • A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle - U2
  • Cheaper than a hot dog with no mustard - Beastie Boys
  • I must do what's right, as sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti - Toto
  • It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog - The Beatles
  • Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
  • Like a bat outta [out of] hell - Meat Loaf
  • My heart is like an open highway - Jon Bon Jovi
  • These are the seasons of emotion and like the winds they rise and fall - Led Zeppelin
  • Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull   
 



Source: https://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/figures-simile.htm


 




44 komentar:

  1. Your blog and your explain is the best.i want ask you
    What we just use like or as for simile? Ada yg lain gak tin?

    BalasHapus
    Balasan
    1. Thank you Sis. Simile consists of connectors. We don't only use "like" or "as". There are another connectors that we can use such as "as though, as...if, as...as, and so...as". You can chose one of them when you make a simile.

      Hapus
  2. assalamualaikum Restina,i think your blog so nice.and than your font,color,and editing fairly consistent.and also your blog make me understand about simile,just which one of this make me confused.
    about the last topic.where is the simile word in popular song,tell me please!!!

    BalasHapus
  3. Wa'alaikumsalam Adel Someone Like you. Simile can be used in our daily conversation, songs, and also a poem. I remind you again that simile always consist of connector. It isn't only "like" or "as", but there are also another connectors. You have to be able to know it cause it will help you to identify a sentence is a simile or not. You can see carefully what things compare in every sentence of popular songs above. I take one example: A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. Identifications: connector is "like", objects of comparisons are a woman and a fish. This sentence means that a women will get difficulties if there is no a man, same like fish without a bicycle. These are keywords for you to identify another examples above. First, find out the connector used. Then see carefully what objects are compared.

    BalasHapus
  4. its very good blog,i know you always be super girl:) i have one question,are simile have structural grammatical when we applied into in poem or word art? thank you,have nice day:)

    BalasHapus
    Balasan
    1. Thank you Kitty, and I know you always be a funny boy:)Every sentences of similes use a pattern, and it based on connectors that we use. The sentence used connector as will have different pattern if you change it by using connector as...as and so on.

      Hapus
  5. Its very good blog tin.I want question for you . Please your explain again what are the similarities and differences between metaphor and simile. And than with example other. Because I am still confuse. Thanks :-)

    BalasHapus
    Balasan
    1. Thank You Cekgu. The similarity between simile and metaphor is both of them are belong to devise of comparison or figure of speech that compare two different things (something is like another thing). To help you identify a simile versus a metaphor, know that the words “like” or “as” (connectors) are typically used in a simile. While, metaphor NEVER uses words such like or as (connectors) to compare. Example: Rozita is beautiful like moon in the night sky (simile). Rozita is the moon in the night sky (metaphor).

      Hapus
  6. Your blog so far is pretty good, but there is one that I want to ask you, please explain grammatical differences of simile and metaphor. and I want simple your answer not summary. 😀

    BalasHapus
    Balasan
    1. Thank you Atong. Okay, based on my explanation in Simile PPT post before that the most differentiation between simile and metaphor is connector. In metaphor, the grammatical sentence never consist of connector, but only to be such as is, was, are, etc. While in simile, the grammatical sentence always consists of connector.

      Hapus
  7. nice post restina . i like you blog now . the background color have contrast with font color okay i want ask you to give a example of aimile in a song thanks:)

    BalasHapus
  8. nice post restina . i like you blog now . the background color have contrast with font color okay i want ask you to give a example of aimile in a song thanks:)

    BalasHapus
    Balasan
    1. Thank you brother. For the example of simile in a song, you can see the list of simile in popular song in the post above. One of the examples is My heart is like an open highway - Jon Bon Jovi

      Hapus
  9. aslkm...I like ur blog restina from the background and ur written
    .And my question is the firstly when u explanation about metapho and simile..so where different between
    methapor and simile.??Thanks u...:)

    BalasHapus
  10. Wa'alaikumsalam Ummi. Thanks a lot. Like I said in another comment before that connector be a main point which differ them. In Simile always uses connector, but in metaphor never. If you want to know detail information, you can see in my previous post (simile ppt)

    BalasHapus
  11. hai restina..
    your blog so nice..
    what the different between simile and metaphor?

    BalasHapus
    Balasan
    1. Thank you Reka.
      Yaps, like I posted on my PPT, the differentiation of metaphor and simile is the connectors. Although simile and metaphor compare 2 things, but in metaphor never use connector to link the comparison. For example you can see in my PPT posting.

      Hapus
  12. wow your presentation is very good titin but I understan yet about what is the different of simile with alegory? as we know that simile with alegory near same? thankyou

    BalasHapus
    Balasan
    1. Thanks a lot Rita. Sorry, actually your question is really ambiguity. I don't know what you mean. It seems like a statement that emphasize you still understand but it's ended by question mark that maybe means you don't understand. Yah, I try to share you about differentiation of simile and allegory. In fact, simile and allegory belong to device of comparisons. Simile usually used to simple comparisons. In contrast, Allegory is a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures and events. It can be employed in prose and poetry to tell a story with a purpose of teaching an idea and a principle or explaining an idea or a principle. The objective of its use is to preach some kind of a moral lesson. Hopefully it's proper with what you want, thank you honey.

      Hapus
  13. Hy restina, i have question, what the relation between simile and semantic, thank before ☺

    BalasHapus
    Balasan
    1. Hello Siti. Why simile is learned in semantics? We have known, semantics study about meaning. A simile sentence also consists of a meaning. For example: A man of word not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. There is a meaning of its sentence. It means a man who talk only no action is useless. If we didn't analyze this sentence, we'll think this sentence is irrational. So semantics + simile = meaning

      Hapus
  14. Hello Restina Dayanti, my lovely friend💖 Your blog is very beautiful like you. But im so confused about your topic. When we used simile in our daily life? Can simile use in formal conforsation? Please give me some example. Thank you😊

    BalasHapus
  15. Hello my beloved lady😘
    Haha, thanks a lot. But, it to much honey. When we use simile in our daily life? Actually you did it, but I'm sure that you're not aware it. When you said: "your blog is very beautiful like you" is one of similes. The object that you compared 👉a blog and I. The similarity 👉 beautiful. And the connector 👉 like. Using simile in formal conversation is rarely to do. It often used in songs, stories, poetry, and our daily life.

    BalasHapus
  16. Hola Restina, your blog so simple but elegant, I like it.
    Restina, I want you give me a poetry in simile by yourself about nature.
    Thankyou.

    BalasHapus
    Balasan
    1. Hay Manners. Thanks for commendation. Poetry by myself? Haha, I shocked when I read it. I'm not a poet who can arrange beautiful sentences. But, I'll try as I can do.
      My village is my heaven
      You're the obvious painting of the Lord
      Your panoramic as a magic which conjure up the eyes
      The cool air is like snow fall from the sky
      The trees grow orderly as rear guard
      You're the real paradise in the world

      Hapus
  17. Black and White girl, i like your blog and i like the way you explain about something to your visitor :) keep blogging girl!

    BalasHapus
    Balasan
    1. Thank you honey💕
      I have praised you before you do it to me. Keep blogging too girl.

      Hapus
  18. I like your blog tin,Please your explain again what are the similarities and differences between metaphor and simile. And than with example other. Because I am still confuse.

    BalasHapus
    Balasan
    1. Thank you Njoo. The similarity between simile and metaphor is both of them are belong to devise of comparison or figure of speech that compare two different things (something is like another thing). To help you identify a simile versus a metaphor, know that the words “like” or “as” (connectors) are typically used in a simile. While, metaphor NEVER use words such like or as (connectors) to compare. Example: Annisa is beautiful like moon in the night sky (simile). Annisa is the moon in the night sky (metaphor).

      Hapus
  19. my advice maybe you can give link the sosmed in widget of your blog,, my question is it we use simile in poem or literature ?why?

    BalasHapus
    Balasan
    1. Thank you for suggestion. Can be, poem and literature consist of beauty sentences. You can use it to your poem or literature to add beauty impression and of course it will deliver deep meaning too.

      Hapus
  20. Hy tin, nice blog I have a question does smile always using in our daily life ? Why? And what the example of smile which always using?
    Thank you .

    BalasHapus
    Balasan
    1. Hi Chika. Thank you so much. Yes, everyone often use simile in daily life. When you recommend someone by compare them with another things, you do it. But, remember you should recognize typically of simile and metaphor. Simile also used to teasing allusion. Simile is used to make variations of languages and make a language more beauty than usually. By using it, we learn how to analyze a meaning which has been into a sentence. There is no constant simile that used. Simile has thousands varieties and it' depend of the way someone convey their simile. For reality, you can see Atika's comment below. Realize or not, she has used simile by saying "the color so soft same with you".

      Hapus
  21. hy my twin, your blog so pretty. and the colour so soft same with you. and i have question for you. why we must study simile in semantics and example simile in poetry ? thank you

    BalasHapus
    Balasan
    1. Hi my twin, thank you so much and nice simile. We had studied about simile since we were in junior high school until in university (Literature & semantics course). Simile is one of figure of speech or devise of comparison that says something is like another different thing. We use simile to make a description more emphatic or vivid. Similes can make our language more descriptive and enjoyable. Writers, poets, and songwriters make use of similes often to add depth and emphasize what they are trying to convey to the reader or listener. Similes can be funny, serious, mean, or creative. Of course after you learned about simile, it gives you knowledge how to identify simile in our daily conversation, song, poem. This kind of comparison is always used in many sides of our life, but not everyone realize that.
      Here are some example of similes taken from poems:
      1. Death will come like a thief in the night.
      Analyze👉 Thing: death and thiefunexpectedness.
      Things in common: stealing, unexpectedness.

      2. The mayor was dumb, and the council stood
      As if they were change into blocks of wood,
      Unable to move a step..
      Analyze👉 Thing: mayor, council, blocks of wood.
      Things in common: doing nothing.

      Hapus
  22. hy resti, what is different between smile in semantic and simile in literatur? thnks

    BalasHapus
    Balasan
    1. Hi Susan. We had studied similes in Literature when we were in the third semester. We could see, in Literature, the most of similes used relate of poetry. When a poet uses simile, s/he makes it plain to the readers that s/he is using a conscious comparisons. S/he does this by drawing the reader's attention to the comparisons, s/he does the comparison by using connectives. While in Semantics, it doesn't only focuss to poetry like in literature, but it discuss all kinds of similes.

      Hapus
  23. Hello titin.. why we must study simile in semantics and example simile in poetry ? thank you

    BalasHapus
  24. Hello Dewi. Haha, this question is really same with Atika's. No differentiation.
    We had studied about simile since we were in junior high school until in university (Literature & semantics course). Simile is one of figure of speech or devise of comparison that says something is like another different thing. We use simile to make a description more emphatic or vivid. Similes can make our language more descriptive and enjoyable. Writers, poets, and songwriters make use of similes often to add depth and emphasize what they are trying to convey to the reader or listener. Similes can be funny, serious, mean, or creative. Of course after you learned about simile, it gives you knowledge how to identify simile in our daily conversation, song, poem. This kind of comparison is always used in many sides of our life, but not everyone realize that.
    Here are some example of similes taken from poems:
    1. Death will come like a thief in the night.
    Analyze👉 Thing: death and thiefunexpectedness.
    Things in common: stealing, unexpectedness.

    2. The mayor was dumb, and the council stood
    As if they were change into blocks of wood,
    Unable to move a step..
    Analyze👉 Thing: mayor, council, blocks of wood.
    Things in common: doing nothing.

    3. The muscles of his brawny arms
    Are strong as iron bands
    Analyze👉 Thing: the muscles and irond bands
    Things in common: strong

    4. A man of word not of deeds
    Is like a garden full of weeds
    Analyze👉 Thing: A man and a garden
    Things in common: useless

    BalasHapus
  25. Hello miss restina dayanti, I like your explanation, I think you make me understand about simile. Thanks a lot.

    BalasHapus
  26. Nice explanation titin. I know that if you present give the best explanation.Tin, can you give me example simile about me, but give the good simile, Tin.thanks

    BalasHapus
    Balasan
    1. Thanks a lot. Oh God, haha. That's really awesome question. But, don't force me to make a simile about you where I have to lie. Haha just kidding. Oke, this is an example:
      Wulan's smile is sweet as fresh honey.

      Hapus