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- "She's as fierce as a tiger" is a simile, but "She's a tiger when she's angry" is a metaphor.
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“Simile.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/simile. Accessed 18 January 2020.
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The first known use of simile was in the 14th century
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