Exercise 7. Point out cases of simile, hyperbole and periphrasis in the following examples.

Exercise 5. Match each word or phrase in the first column with the word or phrase in the second column to produce a simile.

Exercise 6. Write out the following ten similes, using your imagination to put suitable words in the spaces.

1. The boxer had a hand resembling a bunch of... .

2. His face looked like ... that had refused to set and was about to run.

3. He is as ... as a dinosaur.

4. When he smiled after frowning, it was as if the ... was coming out from behind the ....

5. A snowflake is rather like a ... wearing a white fur coat.

6. Those two are about as ... as a cat and a goldfish.

7. Telling a lie is like ...: the wound may heal, but the scar will remain.

8. I heard a multitude of tongues, like the whispering ... of tall ...stirred by the wind.

9. Our country has changed. Once we roared like ... for liberty; now we bleat like ...for security.

10. The mind of a bigoted person resembles the ... of an ... ; the more light upon it, the more it will contract.

Exercise 7. Point out cases of simile, hyperbole and periphrasis in the following examples.

1. What's wrong with romantic literature? My wife reads the stuff in bucketfuls. Never did her any harm.

2. He stared at the girl the way a tortured bull stares at a matador the moment before the estocada.

3. His face remained as immobile as stone.

4. Naturally, I jumped out of the tub and ran out into the living room in my birthday suit,

5. The big smile he switched off like a light bulb as though there'd been a mega powercut.

6. "What do you think, Frankie? Will the old man make a trip down the aisle with Doris?" Kim pressed.

7. He would not have gone without a bath for worlds -it was the fashion to take baths.

8. Judd stood in front of the elevator, a wave of darkness lapping at him like a physical force.

9. Their attempt has been one thousand per cent successful.

10. H.G. Wells reminded her of the rice puddies in her native California. Acres and acres of shiny water but never more than two inches deep.

11. Her sister had a tongue a yard long (= 0.91 m).

12. After such long exposure to the direct sun, the leaves of the house plants looked like pieces of overcooked bacon.

13. I said - through a mouthful of under-done steak. Under-done? The other end could still have been chewing grass.

14. ... his mouth was opening and shutting, as if he were an indignant fish.

15. Unsteadily I clung to the door for a moment to recover and had to close my eyes for about a fortnight until the nausea passed.

16. He sat gnome-like by the fireplace in a brown room of chairs in stamped Spanish leather.

17. She was wearing a mini so short you could see her tonsils.

18. That Poppy is as smart as they come, as sneaky as a snake, and as wily as a she-fox.

19. I'm asking you to be godmother to my very own little serene bundle of joy.

20. Her loose hair swung forward and enclosed her face like a pair of golden doors.

21. He could sell ice to an Eskimo.

22. "Harry, I think, you've done enough!" " No such word in the vocabulary, Jack, ... not until they nail down the lid and put you six feet under."

23. Her face was bright as snow in the moonlight.

24. Over the entrance doors, which would have let in a troop of Indian elephants, there was a broad stained-glass panel showing a knight in dark armour rescuing a lady who was tied to a tree and didn't have any clothes on but some very long and convenient hair.

25. He had a face that looked as though it had worn out four bodies.

26. He was a very small man, not more than five foot three and would hardly weigh as much asa butcher's thumb.

27. When he couldn't find anything new to tell, he rummaged like an endearing dog until he dug up some old joke-bone that he could lay at her feet to see what she thought of it.

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