Monday, December 6, 2010

Simile

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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29 comments:

  1. my days-
    divided between them-
    are as different as my two names.

    The two things being compared are her days and names. On page 3

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  2. But the church contains us like a good bowl, and warm one another as we stand close together.
    Pg.121

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  3. "next day i pierce my eyebrow,streakmy choppy brown hair lipstick red & black as coal" P. 30 Trash.

    Sissy is comparing her black lipstick to coal, because they are both black.

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  4. An example of a simile would be, " Everyone's hands pull, like the surf. The two things being compared would be someone's hands and and the force from the water while surfing. the page number is 159.

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  5. An example of a similie would be, "..The men swarm about the camp as bees in a hive." The two things being compared are the men and bees. Pg. 5

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  6. "the ultrasound looks like a little skeleton head."
    she is comparing the picture of the baby to a skeleton head
    page 56

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  7. My example of a simile is, "...who could you see speeding by, like a comet in the sky?" The two things being compared are speeding by compared to being like a comet. page 8 of Love That Dog.

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  8. Similie
    "i did make a whisper sound
    to hear this talk.
    Like birds
    falling."
    Esther's whisper is being compared to falling birds. pg 17

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  9. and the jury foreman got a look on his face
    like he wanted to hide.
    They are comparing the look on the man's face and wanting to hide.

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  10. "Tropical Secrets"
    Simile- page 158

    "Royal palms are the most graceful trees I have ever seen, the sway like Berlin's ballet dancers.

    Palm trees and Berlin's ballet dancers are being compared.

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  11. A simile in my book is " Sapphire. It's like the secret password to my heart." The two things being compared are the girls name and her heart. On page 1.

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  12. "They cam running out like a pair of snake bit horses"
    They and horses are being compared

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  13. An example of a simile would be on page 59:

    "...and holds up a gray one that looks like elephants."

    The shirt is being compared to an elephant because of there similarity in color.

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  14. " I'm just sitting here with nothing to say wishing Ms. Marcus would vaporize like the people do on Star Trek." Locomotion pg 50

    This is comparing vaporize and Star Trek

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  15. "Your lips are pouting
    Like you're somebody's girlfiend"

    Damiens lips are being compared to pouting like he has everything and is spoiled but not happy with what he has... like a girlfriend but not happy with her.

    pg. 5 in "Street Love"

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  16. "...peeling bark, like shreds of curled paper..."
    What's being compared is the bark of birch trees and curled paper. Page 15

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  17. "It's like God starting again." The rain is being compared to a new start. pg. 209 By The River

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  18. "I take my kaleidoscope off the shelf where I've left it since mom left. Funny-coming from her, it was the perfect gift: colorful, like she always was; slim, which is how I remember her; and mostly...unpredictable." Comparing the kaleidoscope to her mom.
    Page 53

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  19. An example of a simile in the book Wolf Pack would be when the boy is thinking about when Wolf was trapped in the shed."The body was wolf but the eyes were like a human."

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  20. An example of a simile in the book Wolf Pack is when the boy is thinking about Wolf trapped in the garage. "The body was wolf but the eyes were like a humans".

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  21. "Girls are like buses." the two things being compared are a girl to a bus. page 17.

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  22. "He was as scary as a cartoon I saw in one of my books.." Pg. 145 of "Jude"
    The things that are being compared are the German officer and the character in her cartoon book.

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  23. "makes me feel like hundreds of butterflies
    are fluttering around inside of me."

    She is comparing the feeling in her stomach to fluttering butterflies. Page 222

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  24. An example from my book is actually the title of the book, "Heaven Looks a lot like the Mall". It is comparing Heaven and the Mall. It is on the front cover of the book.

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  25. An Example of a Simile would be, "The Harlem Streets you knew like the black of your hand."
    From Bronx Masquerade on Pg. 6

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  26. "l look like i have been hit buy a truck"

    pg. 210

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  27. "But me, I hold Gran's curled hand and let my silent tears drip like the IV."

    Page 129 in Reaching For Sun.

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  28. "like leave me alone" page 52 of brushing moms hair

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  29. "All i do, is cling to the car like I'm five years old."

    pg. 115

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