# simile

> figure of speech indicating a similarity explicitly,e.g. using "like" or "as", contrasting to metaphor in which the similarity is implicit, e.g. of the form "A is B"

**Wikidata**: [Q199714](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q199714)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simile)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/simile


## References

1. [Source](https://www.encyclopedia.com/literature-and-arts/language-linguistics-and-literary-terms/literature-general/simile)
2. [Source](https://lingualibre.fr/wiki/Q3561)
3. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
4. [Source](https://www.euskaltzaindia.eus/index.php?option=com_xslt&view=frontpage&layout=lth_detail&Itemid=474&search=konparazio)
5. KBpedia
6. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)