Tempered like steel
As thick as tree trunks
His mother's cookies taste like lumps of sand.
Her fingers are like birds fluttering over the piano keys.
"Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
(Carl Sandburg)
As delicate as fine china
As clear as the heavens above
As changing as the sea; she would be beautiful and calm as on a clear summers day, yet scorned she would become a tempest, a storm that tossed the sorrowful little boats like a cat playing with a mouse.
The night was as quiet and long as a year on Pluto
Inconspicuous as a tarantula on a piece of angel food cake
Like a friendly war
You're slower than a fat pig wading through treacle.
You're about as useful as an assassin with squeaky shoes.
Soccer is as entertaining as football on a winter day.
Hockey is as vicious as a doberman pincher attacking a cat.
Tennis is as complicated as the relationship of a married couple.
The shadow looked like a monster ready to pounce on me.
The murderer was like a Frankenstein monster ready to devour me.
You're about as fun as a big, swarthy sailor with an STD
As fast as a dog who thinks there's dinner on the table only he's forgotten it's still morning and he's forgotten he hasn't had any breakfast.
confused as a mouse at a cat convention
The scent as powerful as a king
Similes
as quiet as a mouse as blue as the sky
That cat is as fast as a turkey on thanksgiving day.
Metaphors Similes Onomatopoeia Idioms
As valuable as children, as valuable as life, as valuable as light, as valuable as water, as valuable as money, as valuable as diamonds
no
Similes
There are none.
steotypical similes
There are none.
Star cross'd lovers and death mark'd love are examples of metaphors? No they are not. "Bury their parents' strife" maybe. There are no similes in the prologue.
the worm slimed as slow as a turtle
Some examples of similes in the book "Wonder" include "My brain feels like a maze, and I have to figure it out." and "His face was as wide-eyed as a baby's on Christmas morning."
That cat is as fast as a turkey on thanksgiving day.
as quiet as a mouse as blue as the sky
I'm happy as a flea on a dog.
Red as a rose blind as a bat light As a feather