What's a word for a simile that compares two things by how much they don't resemble each other?
The best example I can think of is by Douglas Adams in The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, describing a fleet of spaceships:
Huge as office blocks, silent as birds, they hung in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't.
Anyone?
Posted by pearce at February 23, 2008 4:31 PMDisimile?
Posted by: Kate at February 24, 2008 4:29 AMIf it doesn't exist, "Antonymyle"? ;)
Posted by: billy at February 24, 2008 12:43 PM