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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
Similes
Explanation and Analysis—Attentive Miss Moore:
Once Sylvia and her neighborhood friends are inside of FAO Schwarz, they look around at all the toys. In this moment, Sylvia notices Miss Moore watching them and uses a pair of similes to capture the way her teacher is relating to them:
We all walkin on tiptoe and hardly touchin the games and puzzles and things. And I watched Miss Moore who is steady watchin us like she waitin for a sign. Like Mama Drewery watches the sky and sniffs the air and takes note of just how much slant is in the bird formation.
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Explanation and Analysis—Real Money:
When capturing her reaction to one of Miss Moore’s lessons about money, Sylvia uses a series of similes, as seen in the following passage:
Unlock with LitCharts A+And Miss Moore asking us do we know what money is, like we a bunch of retards. I mean real money, she say, like it’s only poker chips or monopoly papers we lay on the grocer. So right away I’m tired of this and say so.
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Explanation and Analysis—Like a Jigsaw Puzzle:
When describing the way that she and her neighborhood friends enter the fancy FAO Schwarz toy store, Sylvia uses a simile, as seen in the following passage:
Unlock with LitCharts A+But then Mercedes steps up and then Rosie Giraffe and Big Butt crowd in behind and shove, and next thing we all stuffed into the doorway with only Mercedes squeezing past us, smoothing out her jumper and walking right down the aisle. Then the rest of us tumble in like a glued-together jigsaw done all wrong. And people lookin at us.
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