A simile is a figure of speech that indirectly compares two different things by employing the words "like", "as", or "than". Even though similes and metaphors are both forms of comparison, similes indirectly compare the two ideas and allow them to remain distinct in spite of their similarities, whereas metaphors compare two things directly. For instance, a simile that compares a person with a bullet would go as follows: "John was a record-setting runner and as fast as a speeding bullet." A metaphor might read something like, "When John ran, he was a speeding bullet racing along the track."
Similes have been widely used in literature for their expressiveness as a figure of speech:
The very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric.
Here are some more examples of similes:
He fights like a lion.
She swims like a dolphin.
He slithers like a snake.
He runs like a cheetah.
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