Simile

... s show the fatally serious difficulties encountered in differentiating between mortals and immortals, in the context of similes comparing mortals to immortals by way of words like ... Continue reading

... on-negative or let us say positive contexts, homoio- exemplifies the making of comparisons in the form of metaphors and similes. In the case of metaphors, Aristotle himself actual ... Continue reading

The simile here is activated by the adjective homoios ‘similar to’, where the likeness expressed by simile does not have to be permanently applicable.The ... Continue reading

This simile contains the one instance of the adjective alēthēs in Homeric epic that is not applied directly to verbal communication, but to a person, a wo ... Continue reading

(Epitomized from Nagy 2007b:61.) The power of the Homeric simile in advancing the plot of epic is evident in the simile here at O.09.390–394, referring to the blinding of the Cyclops: when Odysseus and his m ... Continue reading

... ressed by way of the verb tēkesthai ‘melt away, dissolve’ at O.19.204 and O.19.208, is directly compared here by way of simile—ὡς ‘just as’ at O.19.205—to the melting of snow on t ... Continue reading

... d of a musical instrument with the sound of the human voice. And the complexity is now intensified by the addition of a simile that follows the metaphor: this sound of the plucked ... Continue reading