A simile is a comparison that uses the words “like” or “as”. It describes one thing as being “like” something else or as having a shared quality or characteristic. Similes invite readers to connect ...
Source: Francesco Bini/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 The most famous of all allegories is the Allegory of the Cave, in which Plato compares unphilosophical people to prisoners who, having spent their ...