sentences:  Shipp, have argued that Homer's similes appear to be irregular in relation to the text, as if they were added later.On the other hand, William Clyde Scott, in his book "The Oral Nature of the Homeric Simile", suggests that Homer's similes are original based on the similarities of the similes and their surrounding narrative text.Scott argues that Homer primarily uses similes to introduce his characters, "sometimes to glorify them and sometimes merely to call attention to them."