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    25. Similes
    A simile is a figure of speech that uses the word "as" or "like." Figures of speech are used like adjectives or adverbs. They modify or describe a person, place, thing, or action with a colorful and often visual term or phrase. Creative writers and poets make good use of these. The following are frequently used similes.

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    clear as a bell clear as day clear as the nose on your face cool as a cucumber certain as death and taxes cold as ice comfortable as an old shoe cute as a button cuddly as a baby dark as night deaf as a doorpost dry as a bone deep as the ocean fat as a pig flat as a pancake fresh as dew innocent as a newborn baby as $reen as $rass as hard as rock as hard as nails as happy as a lark as hungry as a bear as loud as thunder as light as a feather as lovely as a rose as meek as a lamb as quick as a wink as quiet as a mouse as rouSh as sandpaper as smooth as Slass as strong as an ox as soft as old leather as sly as a fox as stubborn as a mule

    as smart as a whip as soft as silk as skinny as a rail as slow as molasses in January as stiff as a board as sweet as honey as white as new fallen sriow

    SIMILDS USING 66LIKR" acts like a bull in a china shop eat like it's going out of style eat like a pig chatters like a monkey cry like a baby cheeks like roses drinks like a fish eats like a bird eyes like stars feel like two cents fits like a glove fought like cats and dogs lauSh like a hyena moves like a snail run around like a chicken with its head cut off run like a deer sing like a bird slept like a log stood out like a sore thumb sit there like a bump on a log spoke like an orator sparkled like diamonds walk like an elephant work like a dog waddle like a duck works like a charm

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    See also List 28, Common Word Idioms; List 80, Descriptive Words; and List 26, Metaphors.
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