Similes

__ Similes __   Simile is a figure of speech, in which two things are directly compared. One simple trick to identify a simile is to find if the words '**as**' or 'l**ike**' are used, since these are the two words which are always found in a simile. If talking about simile vs metaphor, then the basic difference is that, metaphor is an indirect comparison between two things while simile is directly used to compare two things. Following are similes examples, which will clear the concept. __ Examples of Similes __ **__ Some More Examples of Similes __** __ ﻿ __
 *  Laughs like a hyena
 *  As agile as a monkey
 *  As alike as two peas in a pod
 *  As bald as a coot
 *  As beautiful as nature
 *  As big as a bus
 *  As big as an elephant
 *  As black as a sweep
 *  As black as coal
 *  Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep
 *  As black as pitch
 *  As blind as a bat
 *  As blind as a mole
 *  As bold as brass
 *  As brave as a lion
 *  They fought like cats and dogs.
 * <span style="color: black; font-size: 160%; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> As bright as a button
 * <span style="color: black; font-size: 160%; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> As bright as a new pin
 * <span style="color: black; font-size: 160%; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> As bright as day
 * <span style="color: black; font-size: 160%; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> As bright as the sun
 * <span style="color: black; font-size: 160%; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> As brown as a berry
 * <span style="color: black; font-size: 160%; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> As busy as a beaver
 * <span style="color: black; font-size: 160%; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> As busy as a bee
 * <span style="color: black; font-size: 160%; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> As calm as a millpond
 * <span style="color: black; font-size: 160%; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> As clear as a bell
 * <span style="color: black; font-size: 160%; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> As clean as a whistle
 * <span style="color: black; font-size: 160%; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> As clear as crystal
 * <span style="color: black; font-size: 160%; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> 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 baby
 * As cute as a cup cake
 * As damp as the sponge
 * As dead as a doornail
 * As dead as the dodo
 * As deaf as a post
 * As delicate as a flower