SIMILE
As smooth as a baby's bottom
As snug as a bug in a rug
As American as apple pie As solid as the ground we stand on
As big as an elephant As sour as vinegar
As black as coal As steady as a rock
As blind as a bat As stiff as a board
As bold as brass As straight as an arrow
As boring as watching paint dry As strong as an ox
As brave as a lion As stubborn as a mule
As bright as a button As sturdy as an oak
As busy as a bee As sweet as pie
As cheap as dirt As tall as a giraffe
As clean as a whistle As thin as a rake
As clear as mud As tight as a drum
As clear as crystal As timid as a rabbit
As cold as ice As tough as old boots
As cool as a cucumber As useless as a chocolate teapot
As crooked as a dog's hind leg As warm as toast
As cunning as a fox As welcome as a skunk at a lawn party
As cute as a bug's ear As white as snow
As dead as a doornail As wise as an owl
As deaf as a post Or try using some of these similes that start with
As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree "like":
As dry as a bone (Sing) like an angel
As dull as dishwater (Act) like an animal
As easy as ABC (Eat) like a bird
As fit as a fiddle (Fight) like cats and dogs
As flat as a pancake (Work) like a dog
As free as a bird Like a dream
As fresh as a daisy (Soar) like an eagle
As gentle as a lamb Like fingernails on a chalkboard
As good as gold Like a fish
As happy as a dog with two tails (Racing) like a frightened rabbit
As hard as nails (Have eyes) like a hawk
As heavy as lead (Eat) like a horse
As helpless as a baby (Sleep) like a log
As honest as the day is long Like a moth to the flame
As hot as blue blazes (Eat) like a pig
As hungry as a bear Like a pile of rocks
As innocent as a lamb Like a rose
As large as life Like a screaming baby
As light as a feather Like stars
As long as a month of Sundays (Meandered) like a stream
As loose as a goose Like two peas in a pod
As mad as a hatter (Exploded) like a volcano
As mad as a hornet
As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of
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As pale as death
As plain as the nose on your face
As playful as a kitten
As pleased as Punch
As proud as a peacock
As quick as lightning
As quiet as a church mouse
As regular as clockwork
As scarce as hen's teeth
As sharp as a razor
As sick as a dog
As silent as the grave
As slippery as an eel
As slow as molasses in January
As sly as a fox
METAPHOR 38. She let such beautiful pearls of wisdom slip
from her mouth without even knowing.
1. The detective listened to her tales with a 39. Scars are the roadmap to the soul.
wooden face. 40. The quarterback was throwing nothing but
2. She was fairly certain that life was a fashion rockets and bombs in the field.
show. 41. We are all shadows on the wall of time.
3. The typical teenage boy’s room is a disaster 42. My heart swelled with a sea of tears.
area. 43. When the teacher leaves her little realm, she
4. What storms then shook the ocean of my breaks her wand of power apart.
sleep. 44. The Moo Cow’s tail is a piece of rope all
5. The children were roses grown in concrete raveled out where it grows.
gardens, beautiful and forlorn. 45. My dreams are flowers to which you are a
6. Kisses are the flowers of love in bloom. bee.
7. His cotton candy words did not appeal to 46. The clouds sailed across the sky.
her taste. 47. Each flame of the fire is a precious stone
8. Kathy arrived at the grocery store with an belonging to all who gaze upon it.
army of children. 48. And therefore I went forth with hope and
9. Her eyes were fireflies. fear into the wintry forest of our life.
10. He wanted to set sail on the ocean of love 49. My words are chains of lead.
but he just wasted away in the desert. 50. But into her face there came a flame; / I
11. I was lost in a sea of nameless faces. wonder could she have been thinking the
12. John’s answer to the problem was just a same?
Band-Aid, not a solution.
13. The cast on Michael’s broken leg was a Metaphor Examples for Advanced
plaster shackle. Readers
14. Cameron always had a taste for the fruit of
knowledge. Here are fifty more challenging examples of
15. The promise between us was a delicate metaphors. The slashes indicate line breaks.
flower.
16. He’s a rolling stone, and it’s bred in the 1. The light flows into the bowl of the midnight
bone. sky, violet, amber and rose.
17. He pleaded for her forgiveness but Janet’s 2. Men court not death when there are sweets
heart was cold iron. still left in life to taste.
18. She was just a trophy to Ricardo, another 3. In capitalism, money is the life blood of
object to possess. society but charity is the soul.
19. The path of resentment is easier to travel 4. Whose world is but the trembling of a flare,
than the road to forgiveness. / And heaven but as the highway for a shell,
20. Katie’s plan to get into college was a house 5. Fame is the fragrance of heroic deeds, / Of
of cards on a crooked table. flowers of chivalry and not of weeds!
21. The wheels of justice turn slowly. 6. So I sit spinning still, round this decaying
22. Hope shines–a pebble in the gloom. form, the fine threads of rare and subtle
23. She cut him down with her words. thought.
24. The job interview was a rope ladder 7. And swish of rope and ring of chain /
dropped from heaven. Are music to men who sail the main.
25. Her hair was a flowing golden river 8. Still sits the school-house by the road, a
streaming down her shoulders. ragged beggar sunning.
26. The computer in the classroom was an old 9. The child was our lone prayer to an empty
dinosaur. sky.
10. Blind fools of fate and slaves of
Knowledge is the key to success. circumstance, / Life is a fiddler, and we all
27. Laughter is the music of the soul. must dance.
28. David is a worm for what he did to Shelia. 11. Grind the gentle spirit of our meek reviews
29. The teacher planted the seeds of wisdom. into a powdery foam of salt abuse.
30. Phyllis, ah, Phyllis, my life is a gray day 12. Laugh a drink from the deep blue cup of sky.
31. Each blade of grass was a tiny bayonet 13. Think now: history has many cunning
pointed firmly at our bare feet. passages and contrived corridors.
32. The daggers of heat pierced through his 14. You are now in London, that great sea whose
black t-shirt. ebb and flow at once is deaf and loud,
33. Let your eyes drink up that milkshake sky. 15. His fine wit makes such a wound that the
34. The drums of time have rolled and ceased. knife is lost in it.
35. Her hope was a fragile seed. 16. Waves of spam emails inundated his inbox.
36. When Ninja Robot Squad came on TV, the 17. In my heart’s temple I suspend to thee these
boys were glued in their seats. votive wreaths of withered memory.
37. Words are the weapons with which we 18. He cast a net of words in garish colours
wound. wrought to catch the idle buzzers of the day.
19. This job is the cancer of my dreams and 50. My soul was a lampless sea and she was the
aspirations. tempest.
20. This song shall be thy rose, soft, fragrant,
and with no thorn left to wound thy bosom.
21. There, one whose voice was venomed
melody. Hyperbole Examples for Children
22. A sweetness seems to last amid the dregs of
past sorrows. It was so cold I saw polar bears
23. So in this dimmer room which we call life, wearing jackets.
24. Life is the night with its dream-visions
teeming, / Death is the waking at day.
25. Then the lips relax their tension I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
and the pipe begins to slide, /
Till in little clouds of ashes, I had a ton of chores to do.
it falls softly at his side.
26. The olden days: when thy smile to me was If I can’t get a Smartphone, I will
wine, golden wine thy word of praise.
27. Thy tones are silver melted into sound. die.
28. Under us the brown earth / Ancient and
strong, / The best bed for wanderers; She is as thin as a toothpick.
29. Love is a guest that comes, unbidden, / But,
having come, asserts his right; This car goes faster than the speed
30. My House of Life is weather-stained with
years. of light.
31. See the sun, far off, a shriveled orange in a
sky gone black; Our new house cost a bazillion
32. Three pines strained darkly, runners in a race
unseen by any. dollars.
33. But the rare herb, Forgetfulness, it hides
away from me. We are poor and don’t have two
34. The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at
the neck of the copper sunburned woman
cents to rub together.
35. Life: a lighted window and a closed door.
36. Some days my thoughts are just cocoons The car is as fast as greased
hanging from dripping branches in the grey
woods of my mind.
lightning.
37. Men and women pass in the street glad of
the shining sapphire weather. He's got tons of video games.
38. The swan existing is a song with an
accompaniment. You could have knocked me over
39. At night the lake is a wide silence, without with a feather.
imagination.
Her brain is the size of a pea.
40. The cherry-trees are seas of bloom and soft
perfume and sweet perfume. Grandpa is older than dirt.
41. The great gold apples of light hang from the
street’s long bough, dripping their light on My mom is going to kill me.
the faces that drift below, on the faces that
drift and blow.
42. From its blue vase the rose of evening drops.
Old Mr. Smith has been teaching
43. When in the mines of dark and silent thought here since the Stone Age.
/ Sometimes I delve and find strange fancies
there, My birthday will never come.
44. The twigs were set beneath a veil of willows.
45. He clutched and hacked at ropes, at rags of I’m going to stay awake all night
sail, / Thinking that comfort was a fairy tale,
46. O Moon, your light is failing and you are and catch Santa Claus.
nothing now but a bow.
47. Life is a dream in the night, a fear among He knows everything about math.
fears, / A naked runner lost in a storm of
spears.
48. This world of life is a garden ravaged.
My dad is always working.
49. And therefore I went forth, with hope and
fear / Into the wintry forest of our life;
That was the easiest test in the It will only take me two seconds to
world. get there.
Let’s be best friends forever. The mall is large enough to have
Nothing can stop our team from its own zip code.
winning the championship. This is so boring, just kill me now!
My dress shoes are killing me. Hyperboles in Ads
He was skinny enough to jump Kids see advertisements all the
through a keyhole. time, and many contain
Going to Disneyland is the best hyperboles. Here of examples of
idea ever. hyperboles in advertising:
Carrie never stops talking.
I have told you a million times not A T & T - Reach out and touch
to do that. someone.
We used to walk 15 miles to Citgo - There at every turn.
school in the snow, uphill. Brilliant Brunette shampoo - Adds
He is the best player of all time. amazing luster for infinite, mirror-
like shine.
It is so hot you could fry an egg on
the sidewalk. Citi - Citi never sleeps.
You are walking slower than a Disneyland - The happiest place
snail. on earth.
Football is all he cares about. Esso - Put a tiger in your tank.
Everybody knows that. Energizer - Keeps going and going
and going.
My mom works her fingers to the
bone. Geico - It's so easy, a caveman
can do it.
His stomach is a bottomless pit.
iPhone 5 - Browse, download and
Her smile was a mile wide. stream content at blazing-fast
The church was decorated with a speeds.
million flowers. Oscar Meyer - It doesn't get better
I ate so much at Thanksgiving, I than this.
must weigh more than a whale. Redbull - It gives you wings!
We waited for centuries for the Sherwin Williams - Cover the
latest game to be released. earth.
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Last week a man who was choking
on a piece refused the Heimlich
Common Examples of
maneuver.
Situational Irony
For more fun with the English A fire station burns down
language, check out these The marriage counselor files for divorce
The police station gets robbed
Grammar Games for Kids. A fertility counselor has difficulty getting pregnant
Posting on Facebook complaining how useless
Facebook is
A vegan never eats meat but has some sausage
pizza because he is hungry
The traffic cop got his license suspended
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A pilot had a fear of heights
http://examples.yourdictionary.co A member of PETA wears leather shoes
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The teacher failed the test
A man who needed of medical assistance is run
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An anti-technology website
9 In the 1920s, the New York Times said solving
crossword puzzles was a craze that would die
out. Years later and even today, their crossword
puzzle is well-known.
Common Personification Gunpowder was discovered in an attempt to find
the elixir of immortality.
Examples The Consumer Product Safety Commission had
lapel buttons made to promote toy safety. These
Lightning danced across the sky. were recalled for having lead paint, sharp edges
The wind howled in the night. and being a possible choking hazard.
The car complained as the key was turned. In the 1930s, the U.S. planted the Kudzu vine to
Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name. stop soil erosion. Instead of preserving, it chokes
My alarm clock yells at me every morning. trees and the plants it climbs on.
The avalanche devoured anything standing in its Two people want a divorce and during the
way. proceedings, discover they still love each other
Traffic slowed to a crawl. and remarry.
The door protested as it opened slowly. A child runs away from someone throwing a
My house is a friend who protects me. water balloon at him and falls into the pool.
The moon played hide and seek with the clouds.
That book was so popular, it flew off the shelves. Read more at
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The stairs groaned as we walked on them.
Winter’s icy grip caused people to shudder.
Our vacuum hums a happy tune while it cleans.
You need to cross over at the mouth of the river.
Time flies and waits for no one.
My flowers were begging for water.
The ivy wove its fingers around the fence.
The thunder was grumbling like it was angry.
Hail pounded the houses and streets.
The cactus saluted those who drove past.
The wildfire ran through the forest at an amazing
speed.
When I didn’t make the team, my dream of being
a star died.
