Any writer can use a common simile that every has heard before. A good writer, however, creates similes that are original and fresh to surprise the reader and make him/her think! Underline the
I similes found in chapter four in the following three sentences. Then, rate the following similes from
one to three-one being your favorite and three being your least favorite,
Joey usually looked like a little zombie while I peeled the coats and jackets off of her,
Finally it made that funny sound like water going down the drain and slid out of the boot.
With Byron walking around me like that we must have looked like we were in the Wild West
and I was a wagon train and Byron was the Indians circling, waiting to attack.
I bet we looked like the solar system, with me being the sun and Byron being the orbiting
earth.