June's literary device is the simile! Simile is defined as a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.” I am going to enjoy this month because many similes use the word "like" which I believe is generally overused today (by many people, myself included) so I am going to use this month to cleanse my writing of all incorrect uses of like by carefully examine blog entries, like a mother carefully checking her child's hair for lice. See how lovely this can be?
[Ed. Note: The image above was located via google images and taken from a blog that took the image from somewhere else via google images. Ah the electronic circle of life! You should check out the blogger's entry on simile which has some outstanding examples of terrible simile as above.]
Simile.
A more clearly indicated metaphor, like a neon sign hanging above a hole in the wall bar.
Making it clear from the onset that, as in a car's side mirror, things may not be as they appear.
Allowing Burns to tell us his love "is like a red, red rose."
While your love, Bon Jovi explains, is like bad medicine.
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