'his heart ticks like a clock' or 'the clock beats like a heart'
No. But this is: He talks like the minute hand on a clock, so slowly that it doesn't seem to move at all.
Square, round, any color, any shape, designs such as leather, sparkly, snake skin, etc, you get the idea :)
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no, it is personification a simile is when a sentence has "like" or "as"
No. But this is: He talks like the minute hand on a clock, so slowly that it doesn't seem to move at all.
A simile.
Square, round, any color, any shape, designs such as leather, sparkly, snake skin, etc, you get the idea :)
It means that the sound of the crowing of the rooster (cockerel) in the mornings woke the soldiers up. The rooster acted like an alarm clock. 'Alarm clock' is therefore a metaphor for 'rooster'. Had the sentence read 'The far-off rooster was like an alarm clock for the sleeping soldiers' it would have been a simile.
A metaphor
It is a simile.
As quick as a wink is a simile. ----
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simile its a simile when you use "like"
simile It is an example of a simile (uses like or as). A simile in itself though is a type of metaphor.
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that man