Ministry of higher and secondary special education of republic of uzbekistan

Example
The coconut trees came down to the water’s edge. Not in rows, but arranged with an ordered formality. They were like a ballet of spinsters, elderly but playful, standing in unnatural attitudes with the affected graces of a bygone age.

We base semantic typology of similes on their propositional configuration which is analysed in terms of the argument-predicate relations of symbolic logic, worked out by Fillmore. According to Fillmore’s theory, the organizing kernel of the proposition is reperesented by a predicate whose semantics determines its argument configuration, while each argument is characterized by its semantic role (i.e.,“deep case”) in relation to the

Predicate. Such an approach to the concept of proposition enables us to determine those semantic parameters on the basis of which we single out four main semantic types of similes: extensional, intensional, panoramic, and generalizing similes.
Extensional Similes
Extensional similes describe the TO according to its external data through its comparison with another heterogeneous object on the basis of intensification of their common feature which serves as a motivation for the comparison
Example
Salvatore had hands enormous and strong as legs of mutton, coarse and hard from constant toil, but when he bathed his children, holding them so tenderly, drying them with delicate care, upon my words, they were soft as flowers.
In the process of perceiving the world, the speaker focuses his attention either on discrete things or on events and situations. Accordingly, we differentiate similes into semantically simple and complex types. We define simple similes as constructs, orientated on the associative perception of discrete entities, while complex similes are based on the synthetic perception of the world, juxtaposing and comparing two heterogenous events or situations that turns the simile into a polypropositional structure.
For example:
“Then the Boss put one hand out to touch her, like a bear,
touching something with a clumsy exploratory paw”.
One of the structural peculiarities of polypropositional similes is that each of the propositions under the comparison has its own predicate (the above-given example serves as an illustration to it). Yet, the analysis of literary texts has revealed a number of similes
in which the predicate in the related proposition, being identical with the one in the target proposition, can be made partly or fully implicit, represented correspondingly by a verbal substitute or a zero predicate:
Example
Sugar-boy sat over in a corner holding a glass between both hands. Out of the glass he would take little finicking sips, after each sip lifting his head up the way a chicken does when it drinks.
Example
The plum pudding quite melted in one’s mouth and Amy revelled in jellies like a fly (0) in a honeypot. (Alcott, 1990, p. 173)