Categories: Comparisons
An example of simile in popular science writing:
"The news of Pasteur's anthrax vaccine itself spread like a virus through Europe."
Thomas Goetz
Goetz, T. (2013). The Remedy. Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the quest to cure tuberculosis. Gotham Books.
Read about examples of science similes
Many examples of science similes are listed in 'Creative Comparisons: Making Science Familiar through Language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts'. Free Download.
This can also be seen as a pun.
