Simile is an explicit comparison between two unlike things through the use of connecting words, usually “like” or “as.” as it is a device used for comparison.
In bahasa Indonesia, simile adalah majas yang mengungkapkan ungkapan secara tidak langsung dengan perbandingan eksplisit.
We can use similes to make descriptions more emphatic or vivid. We often use the words “as…as” and “like…” with similes.
For example:
“These cookies taste like garbage.”, in bahasa Indonesia, “Rasa kuenya seperti sampah.”
“She walks as gracefully and elegantly as a cat.”
So, how to expressing this simile?
Using ‘like’ to exprees two thing or more.
The use of ‘as (beautiful/adj) as’, ‘as’ is for a equal things. Usually, this word
using for show the same of two thing.
Explicit similes
A simile can explicitly provide the basis of a
comparison or leave this basis implicit. For instance, the following similes
are implicit, leaving an audience to determine for themselves which features
are being predicated of a target. More detail is present in the following
similes, but it is still a matter of inference as to what features are actually
predicated of the target:
- He fights like a lion. It means that he has a strong power to fight.
- He swims like a fish. It means that he is good swimmer
- He runs like a cheetah. It means that he run very fast
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Playing
chess with Ashley is like trying to outsmart a computer.
The activity “playing chess with Ashley” is being
compared to “trying to outsmart a computer.” The point is that Ashley can think
in a powerful manner that resembles the way a computer operates, not that she
is like a computer in any other way.
•
His temper
was as explosive as a volcano.
His temper is being compared to a volcano in that it
can be sudden and violent.
Some of popular similes
1. “as blind as a bat”, means “completely
blind”
2. “as free as a bird”, means
“completely free”
3. “as snug as a bug in a rug”, means
“in a very comfortable position”
4. “as welcome as a skunk at a lawn
party”, means “not welcome at all”
5. “as slippery as an eel”, means
“slippery, evasive, not to be trusted”
simile with ‘as’. Now, let’s get started wih the
meaning of simile with ‘like’
1. “like stars”, means “bright and beautiful”
2. “like a dream”, means “wonderful,
incredible”
3. “like dewdrops’, means “sweet and
pure”
4. “to drink like a fish”, means “very thirsty;
drink a lot”
5. “to eat like a bird”, means “eat so
little”
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