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Similes play an important role in literary texts not only as rhetoricaldevices and as figures of speech but also because of their evocative power,their aptness for description and the relative ease with which they can becombined with other figures of speech (Israel et al. 2004). Detecting all typesof simile constructions in a particular text therefore seems crucial whenanalysing the style of an author. Few research studies however have beendedicated to the study of less prominent simile markers in fictional prose andtheir relevance for stylistic studies. The present paper studies the frequencyof adjective and verb simile markers in a corpus of British and French novelsin order to determine which ones are really informative and worth including ina stylistic analysis. Furthermore, are those adjectives and verb simile markersused differently in both languages?

Investigating the stylistic relevance of adjective and verb simile markers