A Tail Fire And Ice Poem

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In the poem “A Tail Fire and Ice” by Anders Dietrich, simile are used to describe how the people fell in the story. The narrators in the story is the boy of ice and the girl of fire, who will try to find love for eachother. The tone of the story is romantic because in the text it said “will a man of ice his love proclaim?” At first they admire each other but then later question if the other person love them because of how different they are. The first example of a simile is when they said “He shines like silver midnight moon,” That mean that the girl thinks that the boy has nice smooth white skin. This impact the theme by it showing that the girl realy like and admires him even though they are very different. This is one example of a simile

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