Examples include metaphor, simile, ellipsis, narrative motifs, and allegory. Illustrates the sung epics, with typical use of metaphor and simile. The poems contain numerous literary devices including metaphor, simile, etc. There is a similar problem with the terms simile and metaphor. For this reason a common-type metaphor is generally considered more forceful than a simile. However, he criticised Carter's wordiness and her overuse of abstraction, simile, and metaphors. A true parable may be regarded as an extended simile. However, unlike the meaning of a simile, a parable's meaning is implicit (although not secret). The "adapter" simile is even more apt in the case of transcendental schemata. This is also known as "quotation through simile". He borrows a simile used in martial arts termed "mind like water". Declarative modeling languages and environments include Analytica, Modelica and Simile. She successfully seduces Agastya, in the simile filled Rigvedic hymn 1.179. Such suggestions are informed by Jerome's simile with Psalms 83&colon;8. The Buddha twice uses the simile of blind men led astray.