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A simile (/ ˈ s ɪ m əl i /) is a type of figure of speech that directly compares two things. [1] [2] Similes are often contrasted with metaphors, where similes necessarily compare two things using words such as "like", "as", while metaphors often create an implicit comparison (i.e. saying something "is" something else).
Richardson was first married to Elizabeth Hall; they had two daughters. [1]He married Annie Dillard in 1988, after she wrote him a fan letter about Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind.
Robert D. San Souci was born in San Francisco and raised nearby in Berkeley. [6] In elementary school, San Souci wrote for the school newspaper; in high school, he worked on the school yearbook and had an essay printed in a book titled T.V. as Art. As a student at St. Mary's College, he took a variety of classes in creative writing, English and ...
A Dictionary of Similes is a dictionary of similes written by the American writer and newspaperman Frank J. Wilstach. In 1916, Little, Brown and Company in Boston published Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes, a compilation he had been working on for more than 20 years. It included more than 15,000 examples from more than 800 authors, indexing ...
Robert Dickson Loevy [1] (born February 26, 1935) [2] is a professor emeritus of political science at Colorado College and former journalist whose work focuses on the United States civil rights movement and election-politics. [1]
An overall feeling of bleak sadness is the dominating feature of Elegiac Sonnets, [2] [3] setting Smith's works apart from previous sonnets, which were typically love poems. [7] Sentimental novels at the time popularly featured male figures of lonely, melancholy suffering, such as Harley in The Man of Feeling (1771) and Werther in The Sorrows ...
Robert Roberts. Robert Roberts (April 8, 1839 – September 23, 1898) is the man generally considered to have continued the work of organising and establishing the Christadelphian movement founded by Dr. John Thomas. He was a prolific author and the editor of The Christadelphian magazine from 1864 to 1898.
Robert D. Smith may refer to: Bobby Smith (ice hockey) (born 1958), Canadian ice hockey forward; Robert Dean Smith (born 1956), American operatic tenor