"The cafe was like a battleship stripped for action" - The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hermingway."She weeps like a wench that had shed her milk" - All's Well That Ends Well by Shakespeare.Similes sometimes may not work or they may be too jarring for your story or poem. The simile that India "hangs like a wet washcloth from the towel rack of Asia" won the Grand Panjandrum's Award for bad writing in 2005. Jan Hornung says in her article, Seven Steps to Better Writing Humor, that similes "can be funny in their own right." She gives the example of the funny simile, "I'm happy as a mosquito in a nudist colony."īad similes can also impact your writing. Simile is defined by as "a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared." The use of them can help make your writing more interesting. Some other common similes include "white as a ghost," "fast as a speeding locomotive," "lie like a rug," "as clear as mud, "dance like a maniac" and "tall as a tree." Comparing sparkling eyes to diamonds or stars is a simile that has been used many, many times. The use of the word "like" is a major clue that this is a simile. "Her eyes sparkled like diamonds" is a simile because of the comparison. Stephen King says in On Writing, "When a simile or metaphor doesn't work, the result are sometimes funny and sometimes embarrassing." Similes Similes and metaphors need to strike a chord with the reader and make sense on some level. Metaphors and similes are both figures of speech found in prose, poetry and song. They often contain "is" and "was." Similes also do a comparison but they use "like" or "as." "Her skin is as cold as ice" is a simile while "She's an ice queen" is a metaphor. Metaphors do a direct comparison by saying one thing is another thing. Metaphors and similes are both used for comparison. ( home > fiction > metaphors and similes)
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