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How easily and cleverly do I write just now! I am really pleased with myself; words come skipping to me like lambs upon Moffat Hil ...
Good writing is always a breaking of the soil, clearing away prejudices, pulling up of sour weeds of crooked thinking, stripping t ...
Baudelaire compared the great names in art to lighthouses posted along the track of historic time. The simile, as he used it, seiz ...
The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.
One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and
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Simile and Metaphor differ only in degree of stylistic refinement. The Simile, in which a comparison is made directly between two ...
Aristotle illustrates his view of the relation of metaphor to simile as follows. "When the poet say of Achilles, 'He sprang on the ...
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