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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

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Language Learning Metaphors

A simile is a literary device. That compares two things in an interesting and vivid way. If you say something is like something, or similar to something, that is a simile. Whereas if you say that something is something else, that's a metaphor. So, your english is like a shark. That's a simile - s i m i l e, isn't it? S i m il e, simile simile examples. A metaphor is a metaphor is er something which seems to er represent something else. For example, saying the sun was burning er, the sun was an orange. That’s a metaphor for ‘burning’ (the

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