| When we are done, we will have a purer English, free of all nasty things like metaphor and simile and aestheticism and colour. |
| The Washington press corps is sometimes likened to a wolf pack, a simile which I find utterly absurd. |
| When it is wet, this snakelike body is very slippery, long ago giving rise to the simile, slippery as an eel. |
| The simile is appropriate if the reference is to the aurochs or wild ox, because they had huge, long horns. |
| Equally halting, the ants simile in canto XXVI represents the occasional conflict between narrative clarity and structural exigency. |
| This is not to say that most poets do not utilize such tools as metaphor, simile, assonance, and other poetic techniques. |
