Simile
in rhetoric, a figure by which a third that is common to both. To have things are considered with regard to a just notion of similes they must be distinguished into two kinds; one common and familiar, as where a man is compared to a lion in courage, and another more distant and refined, as where two things which have in themselves no resemblance or opposition are compared with respect to their effects; as where a comparison is instituted between a flower and a song, with reference to the emotions they produce in the mind.