He could not help seeing that you were about five times as pretty as every other woman in the room.
2006-07-20 11:21:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
No, it is a simple comparison. In a simile you would compare her beauty to a rose for example.
sim·i·le (sm-l) KEY
NOUN:
A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as, as in "How like the winter hath my absence been" or "So are you to my thoughts as food to life" (Shakespeare).
2006-07-20 11:29:04 · answer #1 · answered by The Mog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not a simile in the present form. It is, like other answerers have said, a comparison. You can take out "about five times as pretty" and substitute "five times prettier" without changing the meaning of the sentence. But if you were to use a true simile, say, "He could not help seeing that you were as pretty as a white rose wrapped in blue satin," then you could NOT take out the phrase and still have it mean the same thing. Hope that helps.
2006-07-20 11:55:51 · answer #2 · answered by Cookie777 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, this is not a simile.
As stated above, a simile must compare two UNLIKE things, not two women.
By the way, this is an example of what grammar books call an elliptical construction. Do you know which word is left out at the end of the sentence?
Because English speakers have the option of using or of omitting the last verb "was," that clause is elliptical. Ellipses are those three or four dots . . . that indicate something has been skipped. In this case, what has been skipped is the last verb in the sentence.
Isn't language cool? We can do all of these complex things without even thinking about how we're manipulating the rules of grammar.
2006-07-20 11:54:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No... its just a comparison. A simile involves two unlike things.
SIMILE
A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two essentially unlike things, usually using like, as or than, as in Burns' "O, my luve's like A Red, Red Rose" or Shelley's "as still as a brooding dove," in "The Cloud."
2006-07-20 11:29:53 · answer #4 · answered by Miss_Eliza_Bennet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, although it uses the word "as", to be a simile it would have to be comparing two unlike things, and it is comparing a woman I assume, to other women, which isn't unlike at all.
2006-07-20 12:07:00 · answer #5 · answered by Dorothy F 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry it is not. A simile will compare two "things" using "like" or "as".
I am a English teacher.
2006-07-20 11:39:45 · answer #6 · answered by Meow 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is a similie. It compared the subjects beauty to five others using the word "as".
2006-07-20 11:28:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, because it is a comparision between things using the words like/as.
2006-07-20 11:35:29 · answer #8 · answered by Mandy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, this is not a simile. It is a simple comparision.
2006-07-21 23:52:30 · answer #9 · answered by monkey jacket 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No because he is not comparing the woman to anything.
2006-07-20 11:30:51 · answer #10 · answered by maxie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋