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4 months ago mollusque said:

It seems plain to me that similes do not exist solely to express literal resemblances, as claimed by the theory of metaphor at its most defiguratory.
--Louise Shabat Bethlehem, 1996, "Simile and Figurative Language", Poetics Today 17(2)

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