A form of metaphor, in which the comparison between two things, images, or ideas is made explicit by the words like or as. In 1 Henry IV, Falstaff says he is "as melancholy as a gib cat or a lugged bear." Those are two similies to express what his melancholy is like. Hal chimes in with "Or an old lion or a lover's lute":
FALSTAFF:
Yea, or the drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe.
HAL:
What sayest thou to a hare, or the melancholy of Moorditch?
FALSTAFF:
Thou hast the most unsavory similies, and art the most comparative, rascalliest, sweet young prince.
(1.2.79-84)
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