Simile
A simile is a figure of speech in which the subject is compared to another subject, for example, "as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs". Frequently, similes are marked by use of the words like or as, "The snow was like a blanket". However, "The snow blanketed the earth" is also a simile and not a metaphor because the verb blanketed is a shortened form, of the phrase covered like a blanket.The phrase "The snow was a blanket over the earth" is the metaphor in this case. Metaphors differ from similes in that the two objects are not compared, but treated as identical, "We are but a moment's sunlight, fading in the grass."
See also tertium comparationis.
They were telling
of variety of incident, but a wonderful similarity of motive assigned
States--Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. They
other until they had collected into one body as the lines of travel
that they had come because they had heard that Kansas was a country
man could get pay for what he did. Others told strange tales
poverty, showed the contracts under which they had labored. Some
diverted from the ends of justice to the promotion of wrong. By far
to find a place where their children could grow up free, receive
They did not expect ease or affluence themselves, but for their
one always feels in that which reminds him of home, seeing in
astounding proportions in the near future, they were startled by
Hesden, too!" Stumbling over the scattered bundles in his way, and
the presence of the travelers, bowing and scraping, and chuckling
of dilapidated clothing upon his person, but his face glowing with
he had always been strangers.
"How d'ye, Miss Mollie--sah'vent, Marse Hesden. I 'llow I must.
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