60 Examples of simile or comparison
Simile or comparison
60 Examples of simile or comparison
The simile is a literary or rhetorical figure that consists of the comparison of two terms that share a quality. Unlike the metaphor, the simile requires the use of connectors, among which the following stand out: like , which , that , similar to , similar to , similar to , etc. Let's see below some examples of simile or comparison in popular expressions, poems and biblical sources.
Simile in popular expressions
- Luis is as elusive as a cat.
- His eyes are like two stars.
- It was shaking like jelly.
- Luisa is cowardly like a mouse.
- They are as similar as two drops of water.
- José is brave as a lion.
- Sleep like a baby.
- Its texture is rough like a tree bark.
- It is strong as steel.
- It was dark as pitch black.
- It is as light as a feather.
- He was motionless as a statue.
- Sing like a canary.
- It was like lamb to the slaughterhouse.
- Your eyes are like sapphires.
- His smile shone like the moon in the dark.
- There was a roar like beasts in combat.
- He is as faithful as a dog.
- When they argue they are like beasts.
- They act like zamuros on the prowl.
- He rose from the ashes which phoenix.
- He hugged me that if it were the last time.
- Like a frightened gazelle, the thief ran away.
- Like Pontius Pilate, the governor evaded all responsibility.
- It is more tangled than a kilo of tow.
- That movie is longer than a day without bread.
- Weighs more than a forced marriage.
- He is more papist than the pope.
- Eat more than new lime.
- He is deaf than a wall.
Simile in poetry
I untaré my works with bacon
because they do not bite me, Gongorilla,
Dog Castilla mills,
Learned in gibes, which porter way.
Francisco Quevedo
In short, I have come into your hands, I
know that I have to die so tight
that even alleviating my care with complaints,
as a remedy, is already defended for me ...
Garcilaso de la Vega
Sometimes like a coin a piece of sun lit up between my hands.
Pablo Neruda
The wind makes my house its round of sobs and screams,
and breaks, like glass, my cry.
Gabriela Mistral
You pass through the abyss of my sadness
like a moonbeam over the seas ...
Amado Nervo
It burns, hidden fury,
ash that goes mad, it
burns invisible, it burns
like the powerless sea generates clouds,
waves like resentment and stony foams.
Octavio Paz
The day will come when the human race
will have dried up like a vain plant…
Alfonsi na Storni
I know the sunset raises like a fragrant hero.
Adolfo Garcia Ortega
I love subtle worlds,
weightless and gentle,
like soap bubbles.
Antonio Machado
The night for being sad lacks borders.
His shadow in rebellion like foam,
breaks the weak walls
ashamed of whiteness;
night that cannot be anything other than night.
Luis Cernuda
Crowned with palms,
like a newly arrived goddess,
she brings the unpublished word,
the strong rump,
the voice, the tooth, the morning and the jump.
Nicolas Guillén
Our encounters are made
in the instantaneous being
that grazes and dies,
- like shepherd and beast -
between furrows and parallel centuries.
Cesar Davila Andrade
Like the sponge that the salt saturates
in the juice of the sea, it was my sweet and tender
heart, filled with bitterness
by the world, the flesh and hell ...
Rubén DarÃo
I want them to teach me a cry like a river
that has sweet mists and deep banks,
to carry Ignacio's body and to get lost
without hearing the double wheezing of the bulls.
Federico Garcia Lorca
What joyful contact with your eyes,
light as frightened doves at the
water's edge !
Jaime Sabines
Like a bird that crosses the clear air
I feel your thought coming towards me
And here in my heart make its nest.
Jose Marti
As in a subtle shell, a lost pearl, a
tear from the wailing waves,
between the sky and the overwhelmed sea
the soul curdles dying lights
and collects in the bed of its life
the sediment of its deepest sorrows.
Miguel de Unamuno
Oh the night strewn with stars
that sent from all its stars
the purest harmony of reflections
as a wedding offering to my thalamus!
Julia de Burgos
There where the murmur of life
trembling to die goes,
like the wave that comes to the beach
silently to expire;
there where the closed tomb
opens an eternity,
all that we have both kept silent,
there we have to speak.
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
Today I send you these flowers that my hand
has just cut freshly opened,
that if I had not picked them up early today I
would have found them at dawn still.
They remember human destiny,
because your graces and certain beauties
will wither away in the not too distant day
and will be, soon, like flowers, dead.
Pierre de Ronsard
Simile in biblical sources
I will fill you with blessings and multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and like the sand that is on the seashore.
Genesis 22, 17
Like a lily among the thistles
is my beloved among the young.
Song of Songs 2, 2
Happy is he who fears the Lord and follows his ways! ...
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the bosom of your home;
your children, like olive shoots around your table.
Psalms 128, 1.3
Seeing the crowds, he had compassion, because they were weary and downcast, like sheep without a shepherd.
Gospel according to Matthew 9, 36
In truth I tell you: if you had faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this hill: "Get out of there and get over there," and the hill would obey.
Gospel according to Matthew 17, 20
The kingdom of heaven looks like a hidden treasure.
Gospel according to Matthew 14, 44
Be cunning as snakes and meek as doves.
Gospel according to Matthew 10, 16
Happy the man who does not follow the advice of the wicked ...! He is like a tree planted by the waters edge, which produces fruit in due season…
Psalms 1, 1.3
As the thirsty doe seeks streams of water, so my soul yearns for you, my God.
Psalms 42, 2
Although I speak all the languages of men and angels, if I do not have love, I am like a ringing bell or a ringing saucer.
1st letter to Corinthians 13, 1
- Update date: March 6, 2021.
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