similes

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.

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

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.

If he wanted to describe the smell of coffee, he trained the program with examples and then asked it to generate similes until he found one he liked.

He’d load up on high-flying similes and florid descriptions — of being “as empty of life as a scarecrow’s pockets,” of plants “with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.”