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comparison

Literary device that relates two separate objects or concepts together in order to explain or accentuate meaning. Comparisons may be made using analogy (illustrating similarity between two things), simile (suggesting that something is like something else), or metaphor (implying that something is something else).



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However, before The House of Cards, Richardson was already renowned as one of the great Shakespearean actors of his day, bearing comparison with John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson, a generation earlier.
However, before The House of Cards, Richardson was already renowned as one of the great Shakespearean actors of his day, bearing comparison with Sirs John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson, a generation earlier.
A long-running criticism of Dyer's game has been his lack of goals, with his goalscoring record not bearing comparison to the likes of nine-goal England colleague Frank Lampard.
 
 
 
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