An extended simile, also known as an epic simile, is a comparison that extends beyond the normal comparison. Milton uses them often to describe grand ideas because he wanted to write an epic poem.
A simile is a word you use to describe something. If it has the word as or like, comparing one thing to another it is a simile. Sentance: The man jumped like a kangaroo. or The man jumped as high as a kangaroo.
Simile: The necklace was so small it was like a (pink) bracelet Metaphor: The gem was a (pink) bracelet
a simile is a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike of being similar using the words like or asa simile is the comparison of two things using the words like or as.example: her eyes twinkled like stars.example: her eyes were bright as stars.
as pure as milk.as white as milk.as sweet as milk.
As old as the hills
it is am exageration that is over extended far out of the point
she walked on the sand and it felt AS soft AS a fuzzy blanket.
compers two things using like or as
An epic simile. There are numerous examples in Homer's The Odyssey. What qualifies a simile is the comparison of two things (ie. "his heart was like a lion's") using the words "like" or "as". To qualify as an epic simile the comparison is extended using inflated language and poetic description.
An epic simile. There are numerous examples in Homer's The Odyssey. What qualifies a simile is the comparison of two things (ie. "his heart was like a lion's") using the words "like" or "as". To qualify as an epic simile the comparison is extended using inflated language and poetic description.
An extended simile is a comparison between two unlike things developed over several lines in a literary work. It typically uses "like" or "as" to craft the comparison, creating a vivid and elaborate image. Extended similes are often used to enhance descriptions and make abstract concepts more tangible for the reader.
One simile in Paradise Lost in Book 4 compares Satan to a whale. It describes how Satan, lurking beneath the water, looks like a whale waiting to attack its prey.
A simile.
Epic simile, an extended simile elaborated in such detail or at such length as to eclipse temporarily the main action of a narrative work, forming a decorative digression. Usually it compares one complex action(rather than a simple quality or thing) with another: for example, the approach of an army with the onset of storm clouds. Sometimes called a Homeric simile after its frewuent use in Homer's epic poems, it was also used by Virgil, Milton, and others in their literary epics.
A metaphor
It is a simile.
As quick as a wink is a simile. ----