Don't confuse similes with metaphors. 'The snake moved like a ripple on a pond.' 'It was as slippery as an eel.' 'Jess is as graceful as a gazelle.' In her poem George Square, Jackie Kay describes ...

Just as the story of an epic poem is woven from characters and plot, so too the individual similes within an epic create a unique simile world. Like any other story, it is peopled by individual ...