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What is the main difference between a metaphor and a simile?
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User: What is the main difference between a metaphor and a simile?

Weegy: Blank verse is poetry is always written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines.It also knows as the most common influential form of English poetry since 16th century.
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The main difference is that while metaphor correlates two unrelated things, a simile compares two or more things by directly and obviously making a correlation using certain words to link them.
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