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thumb|The Madonna album Like a Virgin, in whose title track the narrative persona uses a simile, professing to be experiencing an erotic relationship "like a virgin". A simile () is a type of figure of speech that directly compares two unrelated things, using wording to explicitly make the comparison (often, with a grammatical structure of the type "x is like y"). It is usually understood specifically to entail figurative comparison: thus "a wolf is like a dog" is merely a literal comparison, whereas the figurative "a man is like a wolf" is a simile. In the words of Michael Israel, Jennifer Ri

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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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Vinony's link graph records 300 inbound references to benzetme, and connects out to stylistic device, William Shakespeare and Madonna.

It is catalogued under topics including Comparisons, Descriptive technique and Figures of speech.

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