This section of EnhanceMyVocabulary.com focuses on similes. Writers and speakers use similes to make descriptions more emphatic and vivid.
If you are looking for ways to make your writing and speaking more vivid, this simile collection from Grenville Kleiser is the perfect solution for you.
Similes, figures of speech that are a subset of metaphors, involve comparing one thing with another thing of a different kind, using the words "like" or "as". Writers and speakers use similes to make descriptions more emphatic or vivid.
Study these similes to better understand what these figures of speech are and how you might use them. Consider using these similes or those of your own creation in creative writing.
(A good source on why and how to use metaphors -- include their subset similes -- in creative writing is Purdue University's Online Writing Lab [OWL].)
Because the list is so large, we've broken the smilies down alphabetically as follows:
- Smiles, Page 1 (A-B)
- Smiles, Page 2 (C-D-E)
- Smiles, Page 3 (F-G-H)
- Smiles, Page 4 (I-J-K)
- Smiles, Page 5 (L)
- Smiles, Page 6 (M-N-O-P)
- Smiles, Page 7 (Q-R-S)
- Smiles, Page 8 (T)
- Smiles, Page 9 (U-V-W-X-Y-Z)
Editor's note: This section of EnhanceMyVocabulary.com is excerpted and adapted from Project Gutenberg's Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases, by Grenville Kleiser.