This simile suggests the waving movement of the banners but it also hints at a familiar, united and friendly atmosphere at the protest. There are two examples of similes in Robert Burns' poem A ...

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Just as the story of an epic poem is woven from characters and plot, so too the individual similes within an epic create a unique simile world. Like any other story, it is peopled by individual ...

This simile suggests the waving movement of the banners but it also hints at a familiar, united and friendly atmosphere at the protest. There are two examples of similes in Robert Burns' poem A ...