A simile is the explicit comparison of one thing to another, using the word "as" or "like" -- as when Robert Burns famously declares: My luve is like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: My ...

Full disclosure: My daughter took a creative writing course from the author of this book. She told me he disapproved of any poem with a simile in it. I can now inform her that he practices what he ...

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