Editing Simile (section)

== Uses ==

=== In literature ===
* "O My {{notatypo|Luve's}} like a red, red rose." "[[A Red, Red Rose]]," by [[Robert Burns]].<ref name="Bedford447" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=87802826|title=A Red Red Rose|last=Burns|first=Robert|website=Glen Collection of Printed Music, Vol. 5|publisher=National Library of Scotland|page=415|access-date=2016-04-06}}</ref>
* [[John Milton]], ''[[Paradise Lost]]'', a [[Homeric simile]]:<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms|last1=Murfin|first1=Ross|last2=Ray|first2=Supryia M.|publisher=Bedford/St. Martins|year=2003|isbn=978-0312259105|edition=2nd|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bedfordglossaryo00murf_2/page/135 135]|url=https://archive.org/details/bedfordglossaryo00murf_2/page/135}}</ref><br /><blockquote><poem>::As when a prowling Wolf,
::Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey,
::Watching where Shepherds pen their Flocks at eve
::In hurdl'd Cotes amid the field secure,
::Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the Fold:
::. . . . . . .
::So clomb this first grand Thief into God's Fold<ref name="MiltonTodd1852">{{cite book|last=Milton|first=John|editor=Henry John Todd|title=The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3jU-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA62|year=1852|publisher=Rivingtons, Longman and Company|page=62}}</ref></poem></blockquote>
* [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'':
::How far that little candle throws his beams!
::So shines a good deed in a naughty world.<ref name="Scott and Bascom">{{cite book|editor=William Hall|title=Encyclopædia of English Grammar: Designed for the Use of Schools, Academies, and Private Learners|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lxhEAQAAMAAJ|year=1850|publisher=Scott and Bascom|page=352}}</ref>

::Stopping her from going was like trying to catch a bullet with a pair of tweasers, impossible.<ref name="Scott and Bascom"/>

::Learning to drive was like a deer learning how to walk for the first time. Stumbling until you get it right.<ref name="Scott and Bascom"/>

=== In comedy ===
Similes are used extensively in British comedy, notably in the [[slapstick]] era of the 1960s and 1970s. In comedy, the simile is often used in negative style: "he was as daft as a brush." They are also used in a comedic context where a sensitive subject is broached, and the comedian will test the audience with a response to a subtle implicit simile before going deeper.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.funnysimiles.com/what_is_a_simile.html|title=What Is A Simile?|website=Funny Similes!|access-date=2016-04-06}}{{Dead link|date=February 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The sitcom ''[[Blackadder]]'' featured the use of extended similes, normally said by the title character. For example:
::Baldrick: I have a plan, sir.
::Blackadder: Really, Baldrick? A cunning and subtle one?
::Baldrick: Yes, sir.
::Blackadder: As cunning as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University?<ref>{{Cite web |last=Edmund_Blackadder |date=2016-05-02 |title=Blackadder Series 4 Episode 6 Goodbyeee Full Script |url=https://blackadderquotes.com/blackadder-series-4-episode-6-goodbyeee-full-script |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240108085153/https://blackadderquotes.com/blackadder-series-4-episode-6-goodbyeee-full-script |archive-date=8 January 2024 |access-date=2024-01-21 |website=Blackadder Quotes |language=en-US}}</ref>