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Originally Posted by MaggieL
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
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Ah, but, Grasshopper, you must read further:
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The simplest and also the most effective poetic device is the use of comparison. It might almost be said that poetry is founded on two main means of comparing things: simile and metaphor. We heighten our ordinary speech by the continual use of such comparisons
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Your analogy is quite brilliant, if I may say so. Fruit flies like a banana sounds like something Gomer Pyle might say until you listen to the subtext of the words. "Time flies AS an arrow" vs "Fruit flies AS a banana" is mere nonsense, but the play on words using "like" is quite clever.
I like you despite myself, Maggie.