Simile
1.They are like the musketeers of Dumas … their thoughts and f
eelings.
2.The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion…ends of the ea
rth.
3.…like clouds of flies.
4.Everything is done… like inverted capital Ls…
5.And really it was like watching a …armed men,flowing peacef
ully up the road,while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direction,glittering like scraps of paper.
6.My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a
chemist’s scales, as penetrating as a scalpel.
7.Same age,… but dumb as an ox.
8.Peter lay … coat huddled like a great hairy…
9.It was like digging a tunnel.
10.I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull.
11.Grandmother Macleod, her delicately featured face as rigid as
a cameo…
12.… the fragrant globes hanging like miniature scarlet lanterns
on the thin hairy stems.
13.At night the lake was like black glass…
14.The jukebox was booming like tuneful thunder…
metaphor
1.The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks,or that their l ove affairs have been broken or even that they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern.
2.…did not delve intoeach other’s lives or the recesses of their t houghts and feeling.
3.It was on such … suddenly the alchemy of conversation … was a focus.
4.The glow of the conversation burst into flames.
5.We had traveled in five minutes to Australia.
6.The conversation was on wings.
7.As we listen…to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant.
8.I have an unending love affair with dictionaries…of common sense.
9.Even with the most educated and the most literate,the King’s English slips and slides in conversation.
10.When E.M.Forster writes of -the sinister corridor of our age,w
e sit up at the vividness o
f the phrase,the force and even terror in the image.
11.They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years,…are gone.
12.Down the centre…a little river of urine.
13.…in the past,…
by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.
14.But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers.15.And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.
16.…we renew our pledge of support: to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective, to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak…
17.… yet both… stays the hand of mankind’s final war.
18.And if a beached of cooperation may push…
19.The energy, the faith… will light our… and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
20.… unfettered the informal… children.
21.There follows… frontier.
22.Read, then, the following… demonstrate that logic…
23.“In other words, if you were out the picture, the field would be open.
24.First he looked at the coat with the expression of a waif at a bakery window.
