adjective + (n.)simile amused, colorful, complicated, deferred, distant, divergent, effective, elaborated, epic, extended, famous, helpful, illustrative, implicit, key, like, literary, misleading, original, overt, perfect, poetic, pre-facing, prefacing, secondary, subsequent, surprising, upward, used, useful, vivid  [See all][See only the most frequent]

verb + (n.)simile appear, argue, blur, bother, capture, contain, differ, disapprove, employ, fill, foreshadow, forge, involve, lie, model, note, occur, open, pop, preface, present, produce, program, prove, reflect, remind, sense, treat, use  [See all][See only the most frequent]

noun + (n.)simile allusion, analogy, beast, bit, cattle, clause, comparison, device, difference, domain, figure, focus, foreground, form, image, imagery, imagism, imagists, journey, language, meaning, metaphor, modeling, neurologist, object, opening, passage, perception, personification, phrase, poem, pound, prefacing, search, sense, series, similarity, sonnet, statement, structure, symbol, topic, use, vehicle, word [See all][See only the most frequent]