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Simile Examples

Simile Examples
A simile is a comparison between two different
things using the word like or as to make the
comparison. Similes are generally easier to identify
than metaphors, but not always. Sometimes a
speaker or writer may use the word like or as
and not make any comparison. These are not
similes. For example if I said, I like pizza. I am
expressing a preference for pizza not making a
comparison. By the time you finish working through
these 100 examples of simile, you should have
the hang of it. I have attempted to separate these
similes into an easy and hard list. Here is the
list of fifty easy similes:

Simile Examples for Intermediate


Readers
Slashes indicate line-breaks.

1.Food? Chris inquired, popping out of his seat


like a toaster strudel.
2.Grandpa lounged on the raft in the middle of the
pool like an old battleship.
3.If seen from above the factory, the workers
would have looked like clock parts.
4.The truth was like a bad taste on his tongue.
5.The people who still lived in the town were stuck
in place like wax statues.
6.Cassie talked to her son about girls as though
she were giving him tax advice.
7.Alans jokes were like flat soda to the children,
surprisingly unpleasant.
8.My mothers kitchen was like a holy place: you
couldnt wear your shoes, you had to sit there at
a certain time, and occasionally wed pray.
9.The bottle rolled off the table like a teardrop.
10.

The handshake felt like warm laundry.

11.

She hung her head like a dying flower.

12.

Arguing with her was like dueling with hand

grenades.
13.

The classroom was as quiet as a tongue-tied

librarian in a hybrid car.


14.

Janies boyfriend appreciated her as an ape

might appreciate an algebra book.


15.

The clouds were like ice-cream castles in the

sky.
16.

The shingles on the shack shook in the

storm winds like scared children.


17.

When he reached the top of the hill, he felt

as strong as a steel gate.


18.

When the tree branch broke, Millie fell from

the limb like a robins egg.


19.

She swam through the waters like she was

falling through a warm dream.


20.

They children ran like ripples through water.

21.

Mikhail scattered his pocket change in front

of the beggars like crumbs of bread.


22.

Her hair was as soft as a spider web.

23.

Each dollar bill was a like a magic wand to

cast away problems.


24.

The man held the blanket like a memory.

25.

The ice sculptors hands fluttered like

hummingbird wings.
26.

Im about as awesome as a flying giraffe.

27.

You are soft as the nesting dove.

28.

Andre charged down the football field like it

was the War of 1812.


29.

The stars looked like stupid little fish.

30.

Her laughter was like a warm blanket or a

familiar song.
31.

The river flows like a stream of glass

32.

Blood seeped out of the wound like red

teardrops.
33.

Paul carried his science project to school like

he was transporting explosive glass.


34.

She looked at me like I was speaking in

some strange alien tongue.


35.

The town square was buzzing like a beehive.

36.

Kelsey followed her dreams like most kids

would follow a big sister.


37.

Kyle looked at the test with a stare as blank

as his notebook.
38.

The robins are as thick today as flakes of

snow were yesterday,


39.

Her eyes are like the eyes of statues.

40.

The gray moss drapes us like sages.

41.

The music burst like a bent-up flood.

42.

The curtains stir as with an ancient pain.

43.

But now her hands like moonlight brush the

keys with velvet grace.


44.

I flitted like a dizzy moth.

45.

The flowers were as soft as thoughts of

budding love.
46.

The gray of the sea, and the gray of the sky,

/ A glimpse of the moon like a half-closed eye.


47.

Yes, the doors are locked and the ashes are

white as the frost.


48.

A mist about your beauty clings like a thin

cloud before a star.

49.

She went like snow in the springtime on a

sunny hill.
50.

Then I knew those tiny voices, clear as

drops of dew.

Simile Examples for Advanced Readers


Here are fifty examples of similes for advanced
readers.Remember: a simile is a comparison
between two different things using like or as to
make the comparison.
1.I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides
noiseless as an oar.
2.Though they knew it not, their babys cries were
lovely as jeweled butterflies.
3.He kissed her as though he were trying to win a
sword fight.
4.The paparazzi circled like vultures above a
tottering camel.
5.She was as distant as a remote tropical island,
uncivilized, unspoiled.

6.Our hearts, though stout and brave, still, like


muffled drums, are beating funeral marches to
the grave.
7.He had hidden his wealth, heaped and hoarded
and piled on high like sacks of wheat in a
granary.
8.Pieces of silver and of gold / Into the tinkling
strong-box fell / Like pebbles dropped into a
well;
9.The cabin windows have grown blank as eyeballs
of the dead.
10.

What passing-bells for these who die as

cattle?
11.

Each face was like the setting sun, / As,

broad and red.


12.

Barefooted, ragged, with neglected hair, she

was a thin slip of a girl, like a new moon.


13.

A fatal letter wings its way across the sea,

like a bird of prey.


14.

I will sing a slumberous refrain, and you

shall murmur like a child appeased.

15.

For she knows me! My heart, clear as a

crystal beam / To her alone, ceases to be


inscrutable.
16.

Leaf-strewing gales utter low wails like

violins,
17.

He spit out his teeth like stones.

18.

Talk of your cold: through the parkas fold it

stabbed like a driven nail.


19.

Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds

afresh.
20.

Like winged stars the fire-flies flash and

glance, / Pale in the open moonshine.


21.

The breath of her false mouth was like faint

flowers, / Her touch was as electric poison.


22.

Then, as a hunted deer that could not flee, I

turned upon my thoughts and stood at bay,


wounded and weak and panting;
23.

There are thick woods where many a

fountain, rivulet, and pond are as clear as


elemental diamond.

24.

Years heap their withered hours, like leaves,

on our decay.
25.

The ripples wimple on the rills, like sparkling

little lasses.
26.

She was like a modest flower blown in

sunny June and warm as sun at noons high


hour.
27.

And the face of the waters that spread away

/ Was as gray as the face of the dead.


28.

As in depths of many seas, my heart was

drowned in memories.
29.

Then like a cold wave on a shore, comes

silence and she sings no more.


30.

And shout thy loud battle-cry, cleaving the

silence like a sword.


31.

My soul is lost and tossed like a ship

unruddered in a shoreless sea.


32.

The clouds like crowds of snowy-hued and

white-robed maidens pass


33.

Dreams, like ghosts, must hide away; / Tis

the day.

34.

The evening stretches before me like a road.

35.

I would have hours that move like a glitter

of dancers.
36.

Toby manipulated the people in his life as

though they were chess pieces.


37.

And only to think that my soul could not

react, but turned on itself like a tortured snake.


38.

There are strange birds like blots against a

sky.
39.

She goes all so softly like a shadow on the

hill, a faint wind at twilight.


40.

The horse-chestnuts dropped their buds like

tears.
41.

They walk in awful splendor, regal yet,

wearing their crimes like rich and kingly capes.


42.

Death is like moonlight in a lofty wood that

pours pale magic through the shadowy leaves.


43.

I was sick of all the sorrow and distress that

flourished in the City like foul weeds.


44.

As I read it in the white, morning sunlight,

the letters squirmed like snakes.

45.

Oh, praise me not the silent folk; / To me

they only seem / Like leafless, bird-abandoned


oak.
46.

The windflowers and the lilies were yellow

striped as adders tongue.


47.

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

48.

For the worlds events have rumbled on

since those days like traffic.


49.

And dance as dust before the sun, light of

foot and unconfined.


50.

The fishes skim like umber shades through

the undulating weeds.


51.

Gather up the undiscovered universe like

jewels in a jasper cup.

Common Core State Standards Related


to Simile
Anchor Standards
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4 Interpret words
and phrases as they are used in a text, including

determining technical, connotative, and figurative


meanings, and analyze how specific word choices
shape meaning or tone.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.5 Demonstrate
understanding of figurative language, word
relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
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