similes

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In a 1944 letter, he noted that he sometimes found Welty’s gorgeous metaphors and similes a distraction, “touching something outside the story so vividly that for a moment the mind shifts away from the theme.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

His witty similes and graceful prose have arguably done more to open minds to the potential intellectual value of crime fiction than any other writing.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024

Boras then went into one of his similes and word plays.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2023

Ted came to England as a broken man with a gentle smile on his face, a head full of homespun similes, cornpone puns and a heart bursting with Midwestern niceness.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2023

But whenever you hear bad poets declaiming their bad poetry, filled with foolish similes and ugly rhymes, you will know which of the meads they have tasted.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman