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A Homeric simile is a long and poetic simile. An example of a Homeric simile is: She gently touched the carpet, as a butterfly delicately swoops its wings against the dew covered grass in the morning, before it takes off into the sky.

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A simile is a sentance that describes something

eg. The simile was as long as a rats tail.

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