OCR GCSE Classical Civilisation · J199
Paper 1, Paper 3, Paper 5
A comparison using ‘like’ or ‘as’, which helps an audience imagine an action or quality.
Revise: Homeric Hymns: Demeter and Heracles the Lion HeartedDemeter tears away her veil and cloak and searches over land and sea ‘like a bird of prey’. This simile gives her grief an urgent, fierce energy. For nine days she carries blazing torches, takes no ambrosia or nectar and does not bathe.
- Revise: Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Heroes and Transformation
- Revise: Literary Techniques and Analysis
A comparison using words such as ‘like’ or ‘as’, which helps readers understand or imagine something through another image.
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- Revise: Narrative and descriptive techniques
A comparison between two things, usually introduced by ‘like’ or ‘as’, which highlights a shared quality.
- Revise: Narrative Techniques, Style and the Divine in War Literature
A comparison that explicitly likens one thing to another, often using ‘like’ or ‘as’.
- Revise: Depictions of Social Groups and Non-Combatants
A comparison using words such as ‘like’ or ‘as’, which can make a character’s qualities or situation more vivid.
- Revise: The Horror, Glorification and Human Impact of War
A comparison using ‘like’ or ‘as’, often extending a battlefield action into an image drawn from animals, nature or everyday life.