&glosstext=<b>SIMILE:</b><br><br>When two things are compared using "like", "as" and occasionally "than". Similes (and metaphors) are often used to make images more vivid and arresting.<br><br>		He was cold <b>as</b> ice.<br>		He was cold <b>like</b> ice. <br>		He was colder <b>than</b> ice.<br><br>In Seamus Heaney's 'Follower', he uses a simile to describe how his father looked while he ploughed a field:<br><br>		My father worked with a horse-plough,<br>		His shoulders globed <b>like</b> a full sail strung		<br>		Between the shafts and the furrow.<br><br>By using the metaphor of a sail, Heaney gives us a vivid image of the wind blowing his fathers shirt <b>like</b> a sail. It also suggests that the furrows of the ploughed field are <b>like</b> the waves in the ocean.