Categories: Comparisons
An example of simile in popular science writing:
"While the dirty snowball analogy is useful, as we discussed, another good way to think about comets is as the fluff of the Solar System: this helps to describe their fragile texture, something that is directly inherited from the environment in which they formed."
Natalie Starkey
Starkey, N. (2018). Catching Stardust. Comets, asteroids and the birth of the solar system. Bloomsbury Sigma.
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