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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
Act 2, Scene 3
Explanation and Analysis—A Lusty Winter:
In his conversation with Orlando during Act 2, Scene 3, Adam asks to be allowed to accompany him in exile. Adam uses a simile to convince Orlando that, despite his advanced age, he can still prove a useful companion :
Let me be your servant.
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty,
For in my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood,
Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
The means of weakness and debility.
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty but kindly.
Act 5, Scene 2
Explanation and Analysis—Like Irish Wolves:
In Act 5, Scene 2, Orlando, Silvius, and Phoebe each ask their respective beloved the same question (“If this be so, why blame you me to love you?”). Rosalind responds to their rhetorical questions with a simile:
Unlock with LitCharts A+Rosalind, [as Ganymede]: Pray you, no more of this.
'Tis like the howling of Irish wolves against the moon.
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