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.
A simile in Shakespeare bats cleanup is I'm more like a house that was a nice one and then had a fire. The two things being compared are Kevin and a house that just had a fire.
Clouds..... "I miss seeing them dotting the air like lazy lambs grazing on fields of blue grass." The two items being compared are clouds to lambs. Page 138
A simile that I found in Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes is "So she rolled his promises around in her mind like rubies."(P.19) This is comparing Ishmaels father's promises to rubies in his moms mind.
Pieces of Georgia pg. 4-blinking at me like a mother owl through her oversized glasses. The woman's eyes blinking at her and a mother owl are being compared
"But unlike Tammy, who is snoring like a little outboard motor, I can't sleep." (pg.110) In this quote Tammy is being compared to an outboard motor because she's snoring so loud.
It's like watching a boat sail away, white sails growing ever smaller, leaving me, on an empty shore. Pg. 233. Its comparing a boat and Jane which is me.
A simile in Shakespeare Bats Cleanup is, "I'm kind of like a baseball diamond with the grass mowed and the chalk lines laid down, but there's no game." Kevin Boland is trying to compare himself to a nice looking thing but it can't function because of inside independent factors. He is being fixed from the inside out.
"A distant thunder growls in sudden discontent Like some evil beast awoke too soon."-Amiri & Odette, pg. 4(?) In this sentence, thunder is being compared to a growling beast because it is so loud and frightening.
One simile is "Gabriel's beard nearly as log as God's." This is comparing Gabriel's beard and God's beard. pg 29-30
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A simile in Shakespeare bats cleanup is I'm more like a house that was a nice one and then had a fire. The two things being compared are Kevin and a house that just had a fire.
ReplyDeleteQuestions somtimes run off her tong like water off a cliff. page 54 Pieces of Georgia.
ReplyDeletePieces of Georgia pg. 4-blinking at me like a mother owl through her oversized glasses.
ReplyDeleteClouds..... "I miss seeing them dotting the air like lazy lambs grazing on fields of blue grass." The two items being compared are clouds to lambs.
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"Runnin' outta there like a pair of snake-bit horses". When horses are snake bit they run and go crazy.
ReplyDelete"He was as hungry as a horse." This is comparing John to a horse and saying that he was starving. p. 74
ReplyDelete"A clay woman about the size of my thumb & ugly as sin a cigar box"
ReplyDeleteThe two things being compared are the clay woman & sin .
Pg.19
"My mother is like a very plump chair
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when you sit is her lap..."
pg.79
A simile that I found in Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes is "So she rolled his promises around in her mind like rubies."(P.19) This is comparing Ishmaels father's promises to rubies in his moms mind.
ReplyDeletePieces of Georgia pg. 4-blinking at me like a mother owl through her oversized glasses. The woman's eyes blinking at her and a mother owl are being compared
ReplyDeleteShark Girl pg. 20
ReplyDelete"...read to me like a baby." Jane is compareing herself to a baby.
They said that the ship
ReplyDeleteseemed like an angle
with, huge floating wings
Pg.123
pg.137
ReplyDelete"When something horrible is happening, like a tornado or a blizzard."
Whatt is being compared here is something horrible happening annd a horrable tornado or blizzard.
-Brianna Johnson
the ship and the angle
ReplyDeleteAnybody that couldn't keep up was pushed aside like an old chair or trampled. People that couldn't keep up to an old chair. Pg.43
ReplyDelete"The garage suddenly feels like a much smaller place."
ReplyDeleteThe Trial by Jen Bryant
ReplyDeletepp. 104
"His wife says he works like a dog..."
"But unlike Tammy, who is snoring like a little outboard motor, I can't sleep." (pg.110) In this quote Tammy is being compared to an outboard motor because she's snoring so loud.
ReplyDeleteIt's like watching a boat sail away, white sails growing ever smaller, leaving me, on an empty shore. Pg. 233. Its comparing a boat and Jane which is me.
ReplyDelete"But, I am standing here staring at my hospital bed as if it's a lifeboat." page 82. This simile is comparing the hospital bed and a lifeboat.
ReplyDelete"The screaming goes on like nails scratching across my heart." It is comparing the screaming to nails scratching across Junice's heart. Pg. 81
ReplyDelete“Winds come, bringing a red dust like a prairie fire” -pg. 46. The two items that are being compared are the red dust and a prairie fire.
ReplyDeleteShakespear Makes the Playoffs pg. 101-"Fith-graders scream and run around like mad men." This compares the fith-graders to crazy people.
ReplyDeleteNovel: Hugging the Rock
ReplyDeleteExample: "Like I was a little kid..." Comparing Rachel to a little kid.
Page: 50
A simile that I found was," It was as warm as a hot stove."(pg. 79) This is comparing a warm day to a hot oven stove because it was so hot outside.
ReplyDelete" When I feel the cold air flutter around me like a butterfly's wings" pg.119 The cold air and butterfly's wings are being compared.
ReplyDeleteA simile in Shakespeare Bats Cleanup is, "I'm kind of like a baseball diamond with the grass mowed and the chalk lines laid down, but there's no game." Kevin Boland is trying to compare himself to a nice looking thing but it can't function because of inside independent factors. He is being fixed from the inside out.
ReplyDeleteMy last one was on page 25.
ReplyDelete"Then along came Tiffany, like a small hurricane"
ReplyDeleteTiffany and hurricanes are being compared on pg. 21 in Pieces of Georgia
In Hugging the Rock a simile is "trapped like a bee in a jar." pg.4 It is comparing her mom to a bee trapped in a jar.
ReplyDelete42 miles. Pg 32. There's a place at the bottom of the carpet that looks like a scraped knee.
ReplyDeleteA simile in my novel was "Is as natural as rain in the spring" pg.42. The simile is comparing Damien and the rain the the spring time.
ReplyDeletea simile in Heartbreak is "As big as a house" pg. 75
ReplyDelete"Ash fell like snowflakes." comparing ash from houses burning to snow. As it coats everything. Page 43
ReplyDeleteHis eyes are like a forest floor molted by pools of sunlight. This simile is describing Tristan's eye color. Song of the Sparrow. Page 345 simile
ReplyDelete" They be lyibng like lazy dogs" in Wicked Girls on pg 268
ReplyDelete"Rubber tubes with bulbs attatched, like turkey basters". Rubber tubes and turkey basters are being compared on Page 8.
ReplyDeleteMy example is "(The room is suddenly silent as stone.)" Comparing the room's noise to a rock. Page: 46.
ReplyDeleteIn my book stop pretending on page 138 it says "holding tight like feathers to a wing of a bird.
ReplyDelete"A distant thunder growls in sudden discontent
ReplyDeleteLike some evil beast awoke too soon."-Amiri & Odette, pg. 4(?)
In this sentence, thunder is being compared to a growling beast because it is so loud and frightening.
" he's as thin as a broomstick. " -Witness pg. 99 The man is being compared to a broomstick.
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