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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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The Alderman, being of a sensitive, retiring disposition, shrank from further comparison, and, strolling to another part of the garden, stole the camel.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
For the same thing may be small in comparison with one thing, and great in comparison with another, so that the same thing comes to be both small and great at one and the same time, and is of such a nature as to admit contrary qualities at one and the same moment.
The Categories by Aristotle View in context
Comparison with the Wiclifite or other earlier versions is interesting.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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