A simile is a figure of speech that compares two essentially different objects or ideas, expressly indicated by words such as like or as, as in: O my love is like a red, red rose that’s newly sprung ...

In his 18th sonnet, Will Shakespeare posed a question for his lady love. He asked: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? It was a nice thought. Then the bard bogged down. He left his simile ...

Literary devices are specific ways of using language or other literary elements that we can recognise and identify in a text (a piece of writing). These can work either at a word or sentence level or ...