Stylistic devices based on circumlocution ( periphrasis, simile, euphemism)
Simile
The intensification of some one feature of the concept in question is realized in a device called simile. Ordinary comparison and simile must not be confused. They represent two diverse processes. Comparison means weighing two objects belonging to one class of things with the purpose of establishing the degree of their sameness or difference. To use a simile is to characterize one object by bringing it into contact with another object belonging to an entirely different class of things.
It has 2 formal features:
1) It always has 2 objects mentioned
2) It always has a connective: as, as if, like, resembling, seem, as though, as…as.
Similes came to lose their expressiveness because of long use and became trire.
· To act like a puppy
· Hungry as a bear
· Proud as a peacock
Some simile are alliterated (they start with the same letter)
· Blind as a bat
· Busy as a bee
Genuine simile is created by unordinarily thinking people
structurally similes can be one-word units, a simple sentence, a complex sentence.
It can be accompanied by another stylistic device:
- Hyperbolic simile
- Litotes
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