Sentence examples similar to familiar similes from inspiring English sources
Cranmer's prayers use ordinary phrases and familiar Biblical similes.
Needless to say, Shakespearean scholars have sifted through Golding's soil with a fine-toothed rake, seeking to turn up a familiar glint a borrowed phrase, a recycled simile.
The famous Homeric similes, for example, evoke the familiar, verifiable, natural world.
(Incidentally, the early Greek scientists of this period called it cancer because they thought clusters of tumours looked like crab legs. If this seems a slightly odd simile, bear in mind Greek medics were not familiar with dissection and so could only observe protruding tumours).
Arabic literature is rich in simile and metaphor, but the constructions used are so different from those familiar in the West that translation requires much adaptation.
Similes have traditionally fulfilled this role in narrative, linking the strange events of a story with the more familiar or intelligible experience of the narrator or character.
Similes are piled on similes.
Metaphors and similes are bridges.
Obscure similes were patiently explained.
