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List of metaphors, similes and hyperboles?

List of metaphors, similes and hyperboles? ?

10 of each or as much as you can give me (everyday ones but no cliches)

THANKS SOSOSOSOOOO MUCH!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    METAPHORS:

    A heart of stone.

    A heart of gold.

    He has the heart of a lion.

    You are the sun in my sky.

    You are the light in my life.

    She is my East and my West, my compass.

    You had better pull your socks up.

    Life is a mere dream, a fleeting shadow on a cloudy day.

    Love is a lemon - either bitter of sweet.

    Drowning in the sea.

    Apple of my eye.

    Love is a fragile flower opening to the warmth of Spring.

    Information travels faster in this modern age as our days start crawling away.

    A riverboat shall be my horse.

    A light in a sea of darkness.

    Strength and dignity are her clothing.

    SIMILES:

    As agile as a monkey

    As alike as two peas in a pod

    As bald as a baby's backside

    As bald as a badger

    As bald as a coot

    As big as a bus

    As big as an elephant

    As black as a sweep

    As black as coal

    As black as one is painted

    As black as pitch

    As blind as a bat

    As blind as a mole

    As bold as brass

    As brave as a lion

    As bright as a button

    As bright as a new pin

    As bright as day

    As bright as the sun

    As busy as a beaver

    As busy as a bee

    As busy as a cat on a hot tin roof

    As calm as a millpond

    As clear as a bell

    As clean as a hound's tooth

    As clean as a whistle

    As clear as crystal

    As clear as mud

    As cold as ice

    As common as dirt

    As cool as a cucumber

    As crazy as a loon

    As cunning as a fox

    As cute as a button

    As cute as a cup cake

    As dead as a doornail

    As dead as the dodo

    As deaf as a post

    As delicate as a flower

    As dense as a brick

    As different as chalk from cheese

    As drunk as a lord

    As dry as a bone

    As dry as dust

    As dull as dishwater

    As easy as A.B.C.

    As easy as pie

    As fat as a pig

    As fit as a fiddle

    As flat as a pancake

    As free as a bird

    As fresh as a daisy

    As funny as a balloon

    As gentle as a lamb As good as gold

    As happy as a clown

    As happy as a lark

    As happy as Larry

    As happy as a rat with a gold tooth

    As hard as nails

    As high as a kite

    As hoarse as a crow

    As hot as hell

    As hungry as a bear

    As hungry as a wolf

    As innocent as a lamb

    As keen as mustard

    As large as life

    As light as a feather

    As light as air

    As likely as not

    As lowly as a worm

    As mad as a hatter

    As mad as a hornet

    As mad as the march hare

    As merry as a cricket

    As modest as a maiden

    As much use as a yard of pump water

    As naked as a baby

    As neat as a pin

    As nutty as a fruitcake

    As obstinate as a mule

    As old as the hills

    As pale as death

    As patient as Job

    As plain as day

    As pleased as Punch

    As poor as a church mouse

    As poor as dirt

    As pretty as a picture

    As proud as a peacock

    As pure as snow

    As pure as the driven snow

    As quick as a wink

    As quick as lightning

    As quick as silver

    As right as rain

    As round as a barrel

    As round as a circle

    As round as a sphere

    As safe as houses

    As scarce as hen's teeth

    As sensitive as a flower

    As sharp as a needle

    As sharp as a razor

    As sick as a dog

    As sick as a parrt

    As silent as the dead

    As silent as the grave

    As silly as a goose

    As slippery as an eel

    As slow as molasses

    As slow as a snail

    As slow as a tortoise

    As slow as a wet weekend

    As sly as a fox

    As smooth as silk

    As snug as a bug in a rug

    As sober as a judge

    As soft as a baby's bottom

    As solid as a rock

    As solid as the ground we stand on

    As sound as a bell

    As sour as vinegar

    As steady as a rock

    As sticky as jam

    As stiff as a board

    As still as death

    As straight as an arrow

    As strong as an ox

    As stubborn as a mule

    As sturdy as an oak

    As sure as death and taxes

    As sweet as honey

    As tall as a giraffe

    As tight as a drum

    As thick as a brick

    As thin as a rake

    As thin as a toothpick

    As timid as a rabbit

    As tough as leather

    As tough as nails

    As tough as old boots

    As tricky as a box of monkeys

    As welcome as a skunk at a lawn party

    As white as a ghost

    As white as a sheet

    As white as snow

    As wise as Solomon

    HYPERBOLES:

    Hungry enough to eat a horse.

    Not in a million years

    I nearly died laughing

    I tried a thousand times

    She's a million years old

    That's enough to feed the army!

    I told you a million times...stop exaggerating!

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    List Of Similes And Metaphors

  • Lisa
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    For the best answers, search on this site https://shorturl.im/aygOy

    Here are hyperboles: 1 I tried a thousand times. 2 I was hopping mad. 3 I nearly died laughing. 4 I could eat a horse. 5 There are millions of other things to do. 6 You're always doing that. 7 Running faster than the speed of light. 8 You could be Miss Universe. 9 They ran like greased lightning. 10 He's got tons of money. EXTRAS Her brain is the size of a pea. He is older than the hills. I will die if she asks me to dance. She is as big as an elephant! I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. I have told you a million times not to lie! Go and Catch a Falling Star.

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    List of metaphors, similes and hyperboles?

    List of metaphors, similes and hyperboles? ?

    10 of each or as much as you can give me (everyday ones but no cliches)

    THANKS SOSOSOSOOOO MUCH!

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  • 1 decade ago

    METAPHORS: His velvet voice said.

    SIMILES: The bird flew like a baseball.

    She sank like a rock.

    Love is like a thorny rose.

    HYPERBOLE: I'm so hungry that I can eat a horse.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    sorry, I',m a teacher, won't give you the answers. They are very easy to generate.

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