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Definition of Simile
A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things. To make the comparison, similes most often use the connecting words "like" or "as," but can also... read full definition
A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things. To make the comparison, similes most often use the connecting words "like... read full definition
A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things. To make the comparison, similes most often... read full definition
Second Iteration: Plans
Explanation and Analysis—Baby Raptor Claw:
In Second Iteration: Plans, Grant's excavation team uses their advanced scanning technology to display an image of a baby raptor skeleton that they have only partially excavated. When Grant sees the image, he uses a simile that foreshadows the way Jurassic Park will spin rapidly out of control:
Grant went to look at the computer screen. He saw the complete skeleton, traced in bright yellow. It was indeed a young specimen. The outstanding characteristic of Velociraptor—the single-toed claw, which in a full-grown animal was a curved, six-inch-long weapon capable of ripping open its prey—was in this infant no larger than the thorn on a rosebush.
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Fourth Iteration: The Park (II)
Explanation and Analysis—Gunshot Cough:
In Fourth Iteration: The Park (II), Tim, Lex, and Grant try to evade the tyrannosaur by crossing the water while it is sleeping. When Lex fails to hold in a cough, Crichton uses a hyperbolic simile to emphasize the high stakes:
Unlock with LitCharts A+Lex coughed loudly, explosively. In Tim’s ears, the sound echoed across the water like a gunshot.
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