Please post an example of a simile from your poetry novel. Also explain, in a sentence, the two items that are being compared. Include the page number.
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"It feels like a church on Christmas Day:" page 56 This is an example of a simile from my book, The Trial. Katie Leigh is comparing the courtroom to a church on Christmas because the both very crowded. Almost everybody goes to church on Christmas and there isn't always room for everybody. This is the same for the courtroom where the Charles Lindbergh, Jr. case was taking place.
I'm reading, Reaching for Sun. I found the simile, "I've got special ed, but if i wait until the hall clears, taunts like tomatoes don't splatter the back of my head." I found it on page 4. The two items being compared are tomatoes and taunts. Basically, it is saying that she will get teased and bullied if she goes out into the hall with everyone else.
"she ran like a deer, like a deer in a rifle sight," In this simile, Leanora Stutter is being compared to a deer when she ran to save Esther Hirsh. Page 76
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies: pg.138-"I miss watching them rush past the rooftops like ghosts in a hurry to get home." This simile is comparing how clouds glide throughout the sky like ghosts.
In my novel their is a lot of examples of simile. One that I liked though is, "He takes my hand in his, and his hands are warm and rough like the silt and sand on the bed of the River Usk." This is an example of simile because it uses "like" in it. That is my example of simile in my novel.
I read Shakespeare Bats Cleanup, and I got say I liked it. One of the things I really liked is that Kevin, the main character, has some really good idioms and similes. One of my faovrite ones was on Page 2 where he compares being sick to going on a trip. " Being sick is like taking a trip, isn't it? Going to another country, sort of. A country nobody wants to visit. A country named Fevertown. Or Virusburg. Or Germ Corners."
On page 8 of my book "Love That Dog" a simile was written. "I could see you speeding by like a comet in the sky." In this sentence a blue car is being compared to a comet in the sky because a comet is really fast.
I found several examples of similes in my book. One example is, "The orange in my hand looks like a sun and smells like heaven." This simile is comparing an orange to the sun and heaven. This example can be found on page 39 of the book "Tropical Secrets".
"I am like a rat, scurrying across the rooftops." Pg: 89 Street love The two things that are being compared by Damien are himsef to a scurrying rat. -Aaron C hr2
In the book "Street Love" by Walter Dean Myers, I found a simile on page 42. "Damian is a different; a tender boy with a heart too forgiving for its own dear sake, uneasy with the higher way that for him is as natural as rain in spring." This simile is comparing how natural Damian's "higher way" is to how natural rain is in spring.
No one knows their real names like caped crusaders I found this at the bottom of page 72. I believe Sissy is explaing about the fake names that they spray paint over the city. People may not know who they really are, but they will come to know their alias.
pg.177 "Store managers an big mistakes seem smaller and as distantas the pale moon." Collen is comparing store managers and big mistakes to the distant pale moon.
The role of principal turned friend, but who wears his shallowness on his sleeve like a piece of lint. The shallowness of the principal and a piece of lint are being compared because they are hard to see but always there. -"Who Will Tell My Brother?" page 18
well i forgot the second part so i'm telling what two things are getting compared. But i have to go a little bit before this. Annie's friend, Max, is trying to convince her to go to try out for track because they both are amazing runners. So, Max spills the beans about her to the track coach. And now she's trying to get Annie to run for them. And now the coach is thinking she is lying to her about her no interest in running for them.
I am reading "Shark Girl". A simile in my poem is "I hate the mower, straining to the right like a live animal." Pg. 144. These two words relate to each other because the mower was not doing what she wanted it to do and being stubborn, like a wild animal would be.
The simile in my book was comparing Lancelot's hands to the silt and sand on the bed of the River Usk. The simile was "He takes my hand in his, and his hands are warm and rough like the silt and sand on the bed of the River Usk." I found this example of simile on page 57.
"...Like a candy wrapper on the ground, the best part gone." Chasing Brooklyn Page 345
Before it talks about how she feels like she "isn't really there" when playing with her brothers, because she feels so empty. This simile is comparing her emptyness inside from losing her boyfriend to an empty candy wrapper.
Shark Girl pg.41 "It's mom's expensive pen, the pen with black ink that flows like silk." In this example of a simile, she is comparing the black ink in her mom's pen to silk.
"All I can think about is that his hands look smaller than mine, like the hands of a little boy." The main character in What My Mother Doesn't Know talks about how things between her and her boyfriend are getting akward because she is growing alot and is bigger than him. She thinks he is supposed to be bigger than her. So, she is comparing his supposed to be full grown hands, to the hands of a little boy because hers are so large next to his. Page #94
Robbin whispers something to me, and when his lips brush against my ear, all the atoms in my body start vibrating, as though I'm a harp and every single one of my strings has just been plucked at the exact same time. The two items being compared are the strings in a harp to the atoms in her body vibrating, from page 229 in What my Mother Doesn't Know. -JeKayla Curtis
"When I sit on my pink bed and look across the room, it's like looking at a rosy reflection in a mirror."
The two items being compared are the view of her bed and her sister's, and it looking like a reflection. What she's really trying to say is that they look identical
"The chair is like a plump momma." is an example of a simile in "Hate that Cat. The simile is on page 78. The main character devises a poem about how a chair is like a pleasingly plump momma because (A) It is an assignment to use a metaphor/simile. They are alike in the fact that a chair and a plump momma can be soft and squishy.
Here's a simile from page 20 in Shark Girl, "Each day, she and Lindsey rip open the cards, turn to me with eager smiles, read to me like I'm a baby," Jane is comparing feeling like a baby to being read to. She feels like this becasue she has to rely on other people to do things for her.
pg.93 "All I think about is his hands look smaller than mine, like the hands of a little boy." Sophie is comparing her boyfriend's hands, to the hands of a little boy.
Shark Girl page: 97 "And a warmth, smooth and easy, like mashed potatoes flickers somewhere in my heart." This is comparing the good feeling she is having with mashed potatoes. When you eat mashed potatoes, they are warm and make you feel good. That is how Jane feels right now.
Love That Dog
ReplyDeletelove that dog like a bird loves to fly. pg 86
It is comparing how much you should love your dog to how much a bird loves to fly
"It feels like a church on Christmas Day:" page 56 This is an example of a simile from my book, The Trial. Katie Leigh is comparing the courtroom to a church on Christmas because the both very crowded. Almost everybody goes to church on Christmas and there isn't always room for everybody. This is the same for the courtroom where the Charles Lindbergh, Jr. case was taking place.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading, Reaching for Sun. I found the simile, "I've got special ed, but if i wait until the hall clears, taunts like tomatoes don't splatter the back of my head." I found it on page 4. The two items being compared are tomatoes and taunts. Basically, it is saying that she will get teased and bullied if she goes out into the hall with everyone else.
ReplyDelete--kennadee w. 5th hour.
"she ran like a deer,
ReplyDeletelike a deer in a rifle sight,"
In this simile, Leanora Stutter is being compared to a deer when she ran to save Esther Hirsh.
Page 76
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies: pg.138-"I miss watching them rush past the rooftops like ghosts in a hurry to get home." This simile is comparing how clouds glide throughout the sky like ghosts.
ReplyDelete"Witness", page 93
ReplyDelete"The two stood facing off, each as stout and solid as a house."
In my novel their is a lot of examples of simile. One that I liked though is, "He takes my hand in his, and his hands are warm and rough like the silt and sand on the bed of the River Usk." This is an example of simile because it uses "like" in it. That is my example of simile in my novel.
ReplyDeleteI read Shakespeare Bats Cleanup, and I got say I liked it. One of the things I really liked is that Kevin, the main character, has some really good idioms and similes. One of my faovrite ones was on Page 2 where he compares being sick to going on a trip. " Being sick is like taking a trip, isn't it? Going to another country, sort of. A country nobody wants to visit. A country named Fevertown. Or Virusburg. Or Germ Corners."
ReplyDeletePeeling bark
ReplyDeletelike shreds of curled paper
page 15
We scuttle off like crabs.
ReplyDeletepg. 4
On page 8 of my book "Love That Dog" a simile was written. "I could see you speeding by like a comet in the sky." In this sentence a blue car is being compared to a comet in the sky because a comet is really fast.
ReplyDelete"She gave it to Bugsy, who grinned like a shark, whose teeth were agleam in the shadowy dark."
ReplyDeleteZorgamazoo, pg 90
Bugsy's smile is being compared to a shark's smile. This means that his smile is scary and evil.
I found several examples of similes in my book. One example is, "The orange in my hand looks like a sun and smells like heaven." This simile is comparing an orange to the sun and heaven. This example can be found on page 39 of the book "Tropical Secrets".
ReplyDelete"I am like a rat, scurrying across the rooftops." Pg: 89 Street love The two things that are being compared by Damien are himsef to a scurrying rat. -Aaron C hr2
ReplyDeleteIn the book "Street Love" by Walter Dean Myers, I found a simile on page 42. "Damian is a different; a tender boy with a heart too forgiving for its own dear sake, uneasy with the higher way that for him is as natural as rain in spring." This simile is comparing how natural Damian's "higher way" is to how natural rain is in spring.
ReplyDeletePage 18:
ReplyDelete"...and told me my hair shimmered
like black pearls in the sun"
Rachel's mom was comparing her hair to black pearls in the sun.
No one knows their real names
ReplyDeletelike caped crusaders
I found this at the bottom of page 72. I believe Sissy is explaing about the fake names that they spray paint over the city. People may not know who they really are, but they will come to know their alias.
Far From You
ReplyDeletePage 201
She took a deep breath,
her eyes closing as her
tongue curled up
like I'd seen it do so many times before.
The two things that are being compared are what she's doing now and what she has done in the past.
The chair in my room is like a pleasing plump momma. pg 64.
ReplyDeleteIn this simile the chair and the momma are being compared.
pg.177
ReplyDelete"Store managers an big mistakes seem smaller and as distantas the pale moon."
Collen is comparing store managers and big mistakes to the distant pale moon.
"LIke I'm this human pinball machine and Wyatt's the ball."
ReplyDeleteOne of those Hideous Books where the Mother Dies
Page 262
The role of principal turned friend, but who wears his shallowness on his sleeve like a piece of lint.
ReplyDeleteThe shallowness of the principal and a piece of lint are being compared because they are hard to see but always there.
-"Who Will Tell My Brother?" page 18
Heartbeat page 111 " She studies me disbelieving, a little scornful, AS if i am hiding something or lying to her."
ReplyDeletewell i forgot the second part so i'm telling what two things are getting compared. But i have to go a little bit before this. Annie's friend, Max, is trying to convince her to go to try out for track because they both are amazing runners. So, Max spills the beans about her to the track coach. And now she's trying to get Annie to run for them. And now the coach is thinking she is lying to her about her no interest in running for them.
ReplyDeleteI am reading "Shark Girl". A simile in my poem is "I hate the mower, straining to the right like a live animal." Pg. 144. These two words relate to each other because the mower was not doing what she wanted it to do and being stubborn, like a wild animal would be.
ReplyDeleteThey were like friends. Friends that had stayed too long and needed to leave.
ReplyDelete-Far From You
The simile in my book was comparing Lancelot's hands to the silt and sand on the bed of the River Usk. The simile was "He takes my hand in his, and his hands are warm and rough like the silt and sand on the bed of the River Usk." I found this example of simile on page 57.
ReplyDelete"...Like a candy wrapper on the ground,
ReplyDeletethe best part gone."
Chasing Brooklyn
Page 345
Before it talks about how she feels like she "isn't really there" when playing with her brothers, because she feels so empty. This simile is comparing her emptyness inside from losing her boyfriend to an empty candy wrapper.
Shark Girl pg.41
ReplyDelete"It's mom's expensive pen, the pen with black ink that flows like silk."
In this example of a simile, she is comparing the black ink in her mom's pen to silk.
"All I can think about is that his hands look smaller than mine, like the hands of a little boy." The main character in What My Mother Doesn't Know talks about how things between her and her boyfriend are getting akward because she is growing alot and is bigger than him. She thinks he is supposed to be bigger than her. So, she is comparing his supposed to be full grown hands, to the hands of a little boy because hers are so large next to his. Page #94
ReplyDeleteRobbin whispers something to me, and when his lips brush against my ear, all the atoms in my body start vibrating, as though I'm a harp and every single one of my strings has just been plucked at the exact same time. The two items being compared are the strings in a harp to the atoms in her body vibrating, from page 229 in What my Mother Doesn't Know.
ReplyDelete-JeKayla Curtis
Stop Pretending pg 42
ReplyDelete"When I sit on my pink bed and look across the room, it's like looking at a rosy reflection in a mirror."
The two items being compared are the view of her bed and her sister's, and it looking like a reflection. What she's really trying to say is that they look identical
"The chair is like a plump momma." is an example of a simile in "Hate that Cat. The simile is on page 78. The main character devises a poem about how a chair is like a pleasingly plump momma because (A) It is an assignment to use a metaphor/simile. They are alike in the fact that a chair and a plump momma can be soft and squishy.
ReplyDelete"Like a hurricane breeze, running down the court"
ReplyDeletejump ball
Here's a simile from page 20 in Shark Girl, "Each day, she and Lindsey rip open the cards, turn to me with eager smiles, read to me like I'm a baby," Jane is comparing feeling like a baby to being read to. She feels like this becasue she has to rely on other people to do things for her.
ReplyDeleteHR2
ReplyDeleteShark Girl, page 40
"Mom's eyes are like stiff fingers pressing on my shoulders"
The two things being compared on her mom's eyes and stiff fingers.
pg.93
ReplyDelete"All I think about is his hands look smaller than mine, like the hands of a little boy."
Sophie is comparing her boyfriend's hands, to the hands of a little boy.
"like a movie she'd seen a hundred times." this is a metaphor on page 131. It's comparing her seeing a movie, but 100 times.
ReplyDeleteShark Girl page: 97
ReplyDelete"And a warmth, smooth and easy, like mashed potatoes flickers somewhere in my heart."
This is comparing the good feeling she is having with mashed potatoes. When you eat mashed potatoes, they are warm and make you feel good. That is how Jane feels right now.
Street Love
ReplyDelete... Is as natural as rain in spring.(pg 42) This simile is comparing Damien's kindness with the naturalism of rain in spring.
Aleutian Sparrow
ReplyDeletepage 94
trouble advances like lava.
it is comparing trouble and lava. It means that the trouble keeps flowing on and on.