1. Noun
A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.
2. Noun
a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with ‘like’ or ‘as’)
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
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