Related Words for simile

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metaphor
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Noun, Noun
analogy
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Noun
allusion
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Noun
metonymy
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Noun
stanza
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Noun
allegory
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Noun
epigram
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Noun
poetical
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Name
verse
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Noun
comparison
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Noun
poetic
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Adjective
phrase
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Noun
synecdoche
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Noun
personification
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Noun
similitude
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Noun
alliteration
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Noun
adjective
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Noun
poem
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Noun
paraphrase
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Noun
rhyme
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Noun
lyric
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Noun
parable
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Noun
idiom
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Noun
fable
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Noun
quatrain
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Noun
referent
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Noun
proverb
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Noun
sonnet
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Noun
anecdote
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Noun
remark
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Noun
cliche
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Noun
hyperbole
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Noun
allegorical
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Adjective
locution
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Noun
illustration
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Noun
phraseology
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Noun
epithet
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Noun
quotation
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Noun
partitive
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Adjective
analogical
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Adjective
figurative
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Adjective
aphorism
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Noun
syllogistic
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Adjective
tautology
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Noun
participial
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Adjective
comparative
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Name
periphrastic
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Adjective
strophe
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Noun
prepositional
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Adjective
prose
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Noun
couplet
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Noun
hackneyed
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Adjective
quale
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Noun
sentence
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Noun
epigraph
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Noun
colloquial
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Noun
pail
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Noun
exemplification
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Noun
facile
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Noun
punning
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Noun
explication
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Noun
diction
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Noun
signification
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Noun
inference
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Noun
utterance
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Noun
symbolization
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Noun
symbolical
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Adjective
figure
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Noun
figure of speech
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Phrase, Noun
imagery
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Noun
such
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Adjective
trope
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Noun
antithesis
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Noun
contrast
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Noun
one and the same
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Phrase, Noun
synonymy
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Noun
understatement
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Noun
synonym
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Noun
oxymoron
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Noun
letter
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Noun
fac
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Adjective
likening
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Verb
homeric
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Adjective
orchid
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Noun
woodcut
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Noun
homely
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Adjective
footprint
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Noun
epic
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Adjective
trite
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Adjective
miniature
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Noun
sanguinary
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Adjective
chariot
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Noun
raft
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Noun
cave
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Noun
iliad
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Name
annexed
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Verb
annotated
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Adjective
aria
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Noun
autographs
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Noun
elegy
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Noun
epitaph
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Noun, Verb
epitome
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Noun
extant
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Adjective
facsimile
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Noun, Verb
fae
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Noun, Adjective
foe
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Noun, Adjective
haiku
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Noun
herewith
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Adverb
holograph
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Noun, Verb
idiomatic
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Adjective, Noun
illegible
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Adjective
legible
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Adjective
letterpress
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Noun
lithograph
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Noun, Verb
manuscript
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Noun, Adjective
mimeographed
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Verb, Adjective
prologue
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Noun, Verb
quarto
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Noun
reprinted
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Adjective
story
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Noun, Verb
unabridged
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Adjective, Name
undated
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Adjective
expression
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Noun
literally
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Adverb
collocation
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Noun
chunk
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Noun, Verb
cluster
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Noun, Verb
vernacular
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Noun, Adjective
standard
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Adjective, Noun
dialect
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Noun
sorta
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Adverb
milestone
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Noun, Verb
tell
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Verb, Noun
no
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Noun, Adverb, Adjective
headlines
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Noun
anymore
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Adverb