Well, that’s quite a character, isn’t it? Quite a fascinating character, we should give him a name, should we? What should we call him? And he’s got, what’s he got? Spots like ten-penny pieces, apparently. Says Laura [Laughter]. And what’s this, hair like grass. Which are, as we are saying, this way of saying it’s like something, it gives you a picture, we’re saying, it makes you laugh. Ears like toadstools, apparently [Laughter]. We’re saying they’re called similes, because one thing is similar to the other, when we say it’s like something,
OK, we’re calling that expression a simile. Ears like toadstools is a simile. And the spelling. Say simile, but spell siMlLE.SimlLE, like MILE. It makes it what, more ... [Pupil: Funny],
Yes, more funny. And perhaps more vivid. A picture in the writing.