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simile and metaphor slideshow
a walk through a forest of imagery

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Similes and metaphors (and other imagery) can help the reader 'see' the world as the writer does. They can evoke a particular image in the reader's mind by associating one object or idea with another.
A tree thin and sharp as a fork, for example, is very different tree from one that is like the fat foot of an elephant.

Similes compare two things explicitly (usually using the words "like" or "as...as"):
The pine had branches like the tangled spokes of a broken bicycle.
The sycamore had bark as wrinkled as an elephant's hide.

Metaphors don't use those words to compare things. The comparison is implied instead:
The London plane wore its camouflage jacket.
The tree was undressing. Her pea-green pleated skirt had dropped to her ankles.


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