Meaning of simile by John Rene Plaut

SIMILE DIALECTICAL FIGURES are gathered in 5 groups 1. [TION FIGURES 2 . ORDER FIGURES 3 . THOUGHT FIGURES 4 . SIGNIFICADO FIGURES and 5 . DESCRIPTION FIGURES . Within the third group there are 8 subgroups 3 . 1 AMPLIFICATION FIGURES 3 . 2 . ACCUMULATION FIGURES, 3 . 3 LOGICAL FIGURES, 3 . 4 . OBLIQUE FIGURES, 3 . 5 . DEFINITION FIGURES , 3 . 6 . DIALOGUE FIGURES, DIALECTICAL FIGURES OR ARGUMENTATION FIGURES and 5 . 8 . FICTION FIGURES . The seventh group contains 11 figures : 3 . 7 . 1 . CONCESSIO , 3 . 7 . 2 CORRECTIO , 3 . 7 . 3 . DUBITATION , 3 . 7 . 4 . COMMUNICATIO , 3 . 7 . 5 . CONCILIATIO , 3 . 7 . 6 . DISTINCTio or PARADISTOLE 3 . 7 . 7 . SIMILE, 3. 7 . 8 ARGUMENTUM , 3 . 7 . 9 . JUDGMENT , 3 . 7 . 10 . PARABOLA , 3 . 7 . 11 . Eulogy. SIMILE is the rhetorical evidence used to substantiate a thesis in an argumentation. There are two types of techniques: the extrotechnical tests and the SIMILE, which depend on the rhetorical capacity of the speaker, called introtechnical tests, group to which the argumentum and the sentence also belong. Within the simile stand out 4 techniques : exemplum and similarity, which have a definitive probative value, and the simile and comparison, which only have an ornamental value. Some synonyms, words or similar expressions may be argumentative probation