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All simile synonyms

sim·i·le
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noun simile

  • homology — the state of being homologous; homologous relation or correspondence.
  • lookalike — a person or thing that looks like or closely resembles another; double.
  • echoism — onomatopoeia.
  • comparableness — The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
  • asyndeton — the omission of a conjunction between the parts of a sentence
  • anaphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word previously used in the same discourse. In the sentence John wrote the essay in the library but Peter did it at home, both did and it are examples of anaphora
  • figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
  • likeness — a representation, picture, or image, especially a portrait: to draw a good likeness of Churchill.
  • antistrophe — the second of two movements made by a chorus during the performance of a choral ode
  • litotes — understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all.”.
  • alliteration — Alliteration is the use in speech or writing of several words close together which all begin with the same letter or sound.
  • aposiopesis — the device of suddenly breaking off in the middle of a sentence as if unwilling to continue
  • metonymies — a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as “scepter” for “sovereignty,” or “the bottle” for “strong drink,” or “count heads (or noses)” for “count people.”.
  • metonymy — a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as “scepter” for “sovereignty,” or “the bottle” for “strong drink,” or “count heads (or noses)” for “count people.”.
  • onomatopoeia — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
  • malapropism — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
  • adumbration — to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
  • analogy — If you make or draw an analogy between two things, you show that they are similar in some way.
  • apostrophe — An apostrophe is the mark ' when it is written to indicate that one or more letters have been left out of a word, as in 'isn't' and 'we'll'. It is also added to nouns to form possessives, as in 'Mike's car'.
  • ellipsis — The omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues.
  • comparability — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
  • anti-strophe — the part of an ancient Greek choral ode answering a previous strophe, sung by the chorus when returning from left to right.
  • homologies — the state of being homologous; homologous relation or correspondence.
  • knockoff — an act or instance of knocking off.
  • analogousness — The quality of being analogous.
  • interrelation — reciprocal relation.
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