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Allegory and Simile

Includes questions related the use of symbolic representation and the comparison of unlike things.

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What is the simile for cool breeze?

The simile for a cool breeze is like having water run down your face

What is personifacation?

Personification-giving a non living thing or animal human quality(s)

What does the phrase a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover means?

Literally, a funny story from a happy fellow traveller Figuratively, it's a criticism of immobile inert implacability

Is simile a noun?

it can be sometimes. for example, 'she was a brave as a lion'. a lion is a noun. but it also doesn't have to be. for example, 'she was like a dream'. a dream isn't real.

What year did Damon Hill win the Formula 1 Championship?

1996, when he won eight races and qualified in the front row for every race.

Why is your turntable quiet?

Hi -

I have an older turntable with 2 rca cables, the red an white audio ones. SO I plugged them into a CD changer I have that has audio L+R input and when I crank the sound on a record album it is still quiet.

Does anyone know what I am missing??

Thanks

DP

Why do poets use similes in their poems?

To connect, by way of imagery, with the reader/listener in a way that they might more readily empathise with the thought.

Parallel structure is the repetition of?

words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure

A simile sentence for sunk?

The toy sunk in our pool like a bag of rocks.

What does the simile as cool as a cucumber?

As cool as a cucumber is an idiom which means self-possessed, not excited, in control of one's emotions. As cool as a cucumber is a simile, which is a figure of speech that compares one thing to another. The phrase as cool as a cucumber is first seen in a poem by John Gay in the mid-1700s.

Does a simile introduce a poem's persona?

No it does not it only describes something using like or as