A simile is a figure of speech that compares two things Choose the sentence from this excerpt that is an example of the figurative language simile. Eventually, we come to see these spheres as fictitious. If Shakespeare keeps talking about the spheres, does that peg him as old school? Who knows , right? In "Hamlet," one of the characters says "Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres," as in , I was so shocked at seeing the ghost that my eyes jumped out of my head, just like a star might be pushed out of its sphere. That alludes to the medieval cosmology, but that doesn't mean that Shakespeare believed it.You see how tricky this is?

## Step 1<br />A simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things using the words "like" or "as". The sentence that contains a simile in this excerpt is the one that uses "like" or "as" to make a comparison.<br />## Step 2<br />In the sentence "Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres," the comparison is made using the word "like". The eyes are being compared to stars, suggesting that they are so shocked that they jump out of their sockets, similar to how a star might be pushed out of its sphere.<br />## Step 3<br />This sentence is an example of a simile because it uses "like" to compare the eyes to stars, creating a vivid image in the reader's mind.