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**devonin** · 03-30-2008, 08:17 PM

Simile lends itself more to brevity than wordiness. It lets you communicate a complex idea by drawing a comparison between your object and something the reader presumably already knows about. The most effective similes are usually also allusions.

If you draw a simile that also requires explanation, you generally would have been better off to just explain your original concept instead.

03-30-2008, 08:17 PM	#18
devonin Very Grave Indeed Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Ontario, Canada Age: 40 Posts: 10,098	Re: Reference: Rhetorical and Poetic Devices Simile lends itself more to brevity than wordiness. It lets you communicate a complex idea by drawing a comparison between your object and something the reader presumably already knows about. The most effective similes are usually also allusions. If you draw a simile that also requires explanation, you generally would have been better off to just explain your original concept instead.