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A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two unrelated things using explicit words like "like" or "as" (for example, "a man is like a wolf"), creating a figurative rather than literal comparison. Similes matter because they help writers and speakers communicate vivid, imaginative ideas by drawing surprising connections between things we wouldn't normally think of together.
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La similitudine (lat. similitudo, gr. parabolé "paragone, confronto tra due o più termini", da cui il termine parabola) è una figura retorica che consiste nel confrontare due identità, in una delle quali si individuano proprietà somiglianti e paragonabili a quelle dell'altra, facendo uso di avverbi quali: come, simile a, sembra, assomiglia, così come, ecc., a differenza della metafora che non si serve di questi ultimi.
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