1.

A simile is a figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities

between two different things. a simile draws resemblance with the help of the
words like or as.

Our soldiers are as brave as lions.

Her cheeks are red like a rose.

2. Metaphor is a figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or

hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some
common characteristics.
My brother was boiling mad. (This implies he was too angry.)
The assignment was a breeze. (This implies that the assignment was not
difficult.)
3. An analogy is a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to
another thing that is quite different from it.

Life is like a race. The one who keeps running wins the race and the one who
stops to catch a breath loses.
Just as a sword is the weapon of a warrior, a pen is the weapon of a writer.

4. Parallelism is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the

same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter.

Like father, like son.

The escaped prisoner was wanted dead or alive.

5. Simple Definition of chronology

the order in which a series of events happened
a record of the order in which a series of events happened
1. We tried to reconstruct the chronology of the accident.
2. The book provides a chronology of the events leading up to the American
Civil War.