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Definition of Simile
A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things. To make the comparison, similes most often use the connecting words "like" or "as," but can also... read full definition
A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things. To make the comparison, similes most often use the connecting words "like... read full definition
A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things. To make the comparison, similes most often... read full definition
Key Examples in A Clockwork Orange
Part 2, Chapter 1
Explanation and Analysis—Dead as a Bit of Dog-Cal:
In Part 2, Chapter 1, when Alex finds out his friend Georgie has died, he uses a very unpleasant simile:
I was told that Georgie was dead. Yes, dead, my brothers. Dead as a bit of dog-cal on the road [...] The starry murderer had got off with Self Defence, as was really right and proper. Georgie being killed, though it was more than one year after me being caught by the millicents, it all seemed right and proper and like Fate.
