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Have you ever read something that compared two absolutely different things? Did you wonder what that was called?  It's a simile!  A simile is a comparison between two things using the words like and as.  In a story the author uses a simile to emphasis the mood throughout the piece. Three stories that share this literary device are "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway, and "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" by Richard Wright.