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4.similes describing the inner state: 
e.g. feel like a fish out of water, black as a sin, blush like a rose. 
From the point of view of the connections between the components of trite similes we can devide them 
into associated and non-associated: 
1) cunning as a fox, harmless as a dove 
2) fit as a fiddle, dead as a door-nail, right as a rain. 
The connection between the components of similes of this group are not understandable. A very 
interesting confirmation of it is an example from Dicken's «Christmas Carol».
Old Maley was dead as a door-nail. 
Mind. I don't mean to say that I know of my own knowledge what there is particularly dead about a door-
nail. I might have been inclined myself to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of iron mongery in the 
trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or 
the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat emphatically that Marley was as dead as a 
door-nail. 
 
Genuine similes are always original and unexpected. From the semantic point of view we 
distinguish the following types of similes: 
1. similes of quality: 
The difference between the two ideas is as deep as the sea. 
2. similes of action: 
The clerks in the office jumped about like sailors during a storm. 
3. similes of relation. 
As the dew to the blossom, the bud to the bee.
As the scent to the rose, are those memories to me. ( E.B. Webby ). 
4. similes-analogies. Two ideas are compared: 

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As on the fingers of a thronged queen. 
The basest jewel will be well esteemed.
So are those errors that in the are seen.
To truth translated and for true things deemed. (W.Shakespeare. Sonnet 96 ). 
 
Similes as a rule are grammatically formed with the help of special words: link - words. There are 
several ways of expressing this link - word: 
1. morphological way with the help of a comparative degree. 
The human heart can suffer. It can hold more tears than the ocean holds waters
(Ch. Bronte) 
2. lexical way, with the help of conjunctions: like, as, as if, as though. 
The man said yes, as they passed in, looked at Paul as if he were a little mouse and the house 
were a trap.
 / Dickens / 
3. similes formed with the help of adverbs - so, thus. 
4. with the help of words: resemble, seem, compare, remind. 
Her hands seemed to be made of cool ivory. 
Every component of simile can be expressed by one word, a group of words. It can extend as far 
as a complex sentence with many subordinate clauses. From the point of view of compositional structure 
there are two types of similes: 
1. simile within a sentence 
2. simile within a syntactical unit which may extend as far as the whole paragraph. 
As an imperfect actor on the stage
Who with his fear is put besides his part,
Or some fierce thing replaced with too much rage
So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
The perfect ceremony of love's rite,
And in my own love's strength seem to decay,
Overcharged with burden of mine own love's might 
( W. Shakespeare. Sonnet 23) 
The main stylistic function of simile is to create images, to express emotions and to stress this or 
that feature of an of object or phenomenon. Sometimes simile produce humorous and satiric effect. 
And he is about as beautiful as a cab leaning against Opera House at 12.30 dreaming of the plains 
of Arabic. (O’Henry)