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¨Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.¨

-Albert Einstein

This is a simile because it compares the process of riding a bike and human life. This simile tells us that when you are riding a bike you have to keep going so you will not fall in the process and the same goes for a human life. We are also aware that this quote is a simile because it uses the word ¨like¨ in the sentence.

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"The children were like sponges, eager for knowledge" - Katherine Johnson in her autobiography

This is a simile that Katherine uses to describe students at the elementary school. This is a simile because she uses the word "like" to compare a sponge and children. Katherine used a sponge to compare the children because the children were too excited to show their excitement for learning. This could mean that the children were very eager about their education and this is also a good thing that they are also very concerned about their education which is a good thing that they wanted to learn.

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"I'm going off the rails on a crazy train" -Ozzy Osbourne

This is a metaphor because it compares two things without using the words "like" or "as". The two things he is comparing here is a train falling off the rails, and his mental state. He goes on to sing about how sometimes the system beats people down, and he just wishes that people "learn how to love and forget how to hate", but his mental state is falling of the rails because some people can't do this.

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"Life is a roller coaster."-Riding the bullet, by Mick Garris.

This metaphor compares life to a roller coaster. This metaphor shows how life’s ups and downs are like the thrilling and unpredictable experience of riding a roller coaster. Some examples of this could be if you got a pop quiz at school, or if someone close to you got sick and passed away or if someone you know got involved in a car crash and didn't make it out.

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“His determination was a driving force.” – Movie: “Drive”

This is a metaphor. A metaphor compares two things. For example, this metaphor is comparing his determination to a driving force. This metaphor conveys someone’s motivation and resolve by comparing their determination to a propelling and powerful force.

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"Old Marley was dead as a door-nail."

-A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

This simile compares Marley, a character who is deceased, to a door-nail. This could signify that Marley is similar to a door-nail, which, just like Marley, is not alive, so the author is describing Marley as not living. This is a simile because it compares Marley to a door-nail using the word "as".

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Raymond Chandler, “The Big Sleep”

“His smile was as stiff as a frozen fish.”

This simile compares his smile to a frozen fish. It could mean that their smile is very fake and tight, and they are feeling uncomfortable or unwilling. It could also mean that while they were smiling, something shocking happened and they had not gotten over it yet.

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"Memorizing him was as easy as knowing all the words to your old favorite song"

- Be not Nobody Taylor Swift

This is showing if you have a favorite song you listen to all the time. Some even memorize it word for word. Taylor is using this to show that she knew this boy word for word or you could say she knew everything about him, everything he does his favorite things so just everything about him. But if you knew this song she does not have him anymore and it is just showing how much you could know somebody and loose them.

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"To me he seemed very thin and small, like a reed that could snap in the wind"

- Malala Yousafzai from I am Malala

This is a simile. It uses to word 'like' to compare the two unlike things. It is comparing her brother to a reed. This simile is showing what she thought about her brother, which is that he was very tiny and fragile like a small reed, describing Malala's brother.

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“The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.”

-Gone with the Wind, a book, by Margaret Mitchell

This quote is a simile. It compares two unlike things such as the mystery of a man, to a door that had neither a key nor a lock. I believe that this means that the girl had an endless curiosity that couldn't be easily satisfied, which ties into the door having neither a key or a lock seeing as the mystery is timeless and will never satisfy the curiosities of the human race. Furthermore, it shows that the girl is curious about something that is meaningless or is pointless due to not having an answer.

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"I be swimmin' wit' the sharks, lil' you a lobster," - Camelot by NLE Choppa (song)

This is a metaphor. It is comparing two unlike things, a person and a lobster. In this song, NLE is trying to say that he is better and more superior to the other. NLE is saying that his status is similar to a shark's. The other is compared to a lobster because a lobster is much smaller and less significant than a shark. NLE can be saying this maybe because he thinks that the other should not be around him or is not in the same league as him.

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“You can't lift the stone without being ready for the snake that's revealed.” -Cillian Murphy

This metaphor refers to when scientists were first initiating the start of a careless project. This quote means that they cannot make an item so recklessly without being prepared for the consequences that it could cause.

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“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” – William Shakespeare in As You Like It is the Seven Ages of Man.

This is a metaphor. It is comparing the world to a stage. This may have been of high belief in Shakespeare's mind because he wrote plays for the stage. He may have believed that theatre plays are composed of deeper value than what lies on the surface. The plays tell of tragedy, horror, romance, fantasy, etc. This is why William Shakespeare used this famous quote.

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"Dear angel lacy, eyes white as daisies." - (song) Lacy, Olivia Rodrigo

This simile compares Lacy's eyes to daisies. This could signify that Lacy's eyes are bright and big like daisies, daisies usually have white petals. It can be shown that Olivia, the singer is jealous of Lacy's eyes. This is a simile because it compares Lacy's eyes and daisies with the word 'as'.

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"The world is like a ride at an amusement park" -Waking Life, by Richard Linklater.

This is a Simile, because it compares two things with the word like. It compares life to a ride at an amusement park, because it might be unpredictable. Also, it will have high's and lows, and can be scary when it goes down, but there will not just be low parts on a ride, but also highs.

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“Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.” - Forrest, from the movie Forrest Gump

This is a simile. It compares the unpredictability of life with a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get, just like every piece of chocolate from a box of chocolates. You may like what you get, or you may not, but you will never know for certain what will happen in life. This simile suggests there is still good in the bad, as although you may not like the filling of the chocolate, you may like the chocolate itself. It brings out the good in every bad. Just like in life, we should learn to savor the good instead of focusing on the bad.

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“Loyalty is rare like a blue moon.” – The Smurfs

This is a simile from the movie "The Smurfs. I know it is a simile because it is comparing 2 things. In the quote it gives us an example of a blue moon. A blue moon is something to known to be very rare or once in a lifetime. The smurfs is showung that it is very hard to find someone loyal and it could take a lifetime.

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"It was a passage made by dwarves...straight as a ruler...."

-The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien

This is a simile. Tolkien compares the tunnel to a ruler using "as". This shows how well the dwarves carved it, exemplifying their craftmanship. As a ruler is perfectly straight, that shows just how straight the passage is.

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"Hit me like a ray of sun" -Halo by Beyonce

This is a simile. It uses the word "like". It compares one thing to something else.

Beyonce is comparing pain to being hit by a ray of sun. Since it would be obviously really painful to get hit by a ray of sun, she is comparing the pain she feels to the pain of getting hit by a ray of sun.

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¨What doesn't kill us makes us stronger¨.

This metaphor, it does not use like or as and it compares two, unlike things. I think it means that life struggles only make you grow stronger and while you may be going through hardships you will be a better person as a whole after those events.

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"And I cried like a baby coming home from the bar.."

-Cruel Summer(song)

by Taylor Swift

This is a simile. You can tell this is a simile because it compares Taylor Swift to a crying baby using like, which is something that similes have and metaphors don't. This simile compares Taylor swift to a crying baby coming home to suggest that she was crying a lot. This simile shows that something really bad happened to Taylor swift because of her saying that she was crying like a baby. We can infer, that it might have been a relationship breakup or a major disaster happened in her life, which caused her to come home crying her eyes out.

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"Cause you were Romeo."

-Love Story by Taylor Swift

This is a metaphor. It is a metaphor because it compares two things without using the words like or as. It compares someone to Romeo from Romeo and Juliet. Romeo is Juliet's lover and they will do anything for each other. Romeo and Juliet are like a perfect couple. This is why Taylor Swift compares Romeo to the person the song is about.

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Yara Shokair - "Fear is like a disease, it spreads." Will Smith from After Earth the Sci-fi action film

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Yara Shokair - "Fear is like a disease, it spreads." Will Smith from After Earth the Sci-fi action film

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This is a simile, it uses "like" to compare an emotion to something contagious. This shows how when someone spreads a rumor like someone among them having a dangerous item, it spreads and escalates quickly. It creates a almost "dark" mood/atmosphere.

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"Do you ever feel, like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?"

-Firework, Katy Perry

This is a simile. It uses "like", which is a word that is usually used in similes. It compares how you feel, and a plastic bag drifting through the wind. This simile shows Katy Perry's feelings about wanting to start again, showing how she feels like a plastic bag. Katy Perry feels that she wants to start again, and she is asking the listener if they feel that way.

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"Chasing after you is like a fairytale, but I feel like I'm glued on tight to this carousel" Carousel by Melanie Martinez.

Simile since it uses like and compares two things, chasing you and a fairytale. It conveys the feeling of chasing after someone but going in circles and circles like a carousel and in a loop like a fairytale where it is a fantasy world that can have no real ending.

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"I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal" - My shot, by Lin Manuel Miranda

This is a metaphor. It is a metaphor and not a simile because it compares two unlike things (Him and a diamond) without the words like or as and uses the word I am which is a "to be" word. I believe it means that he is a unique soul amongst everyone else, trying to make his mark in history. Alexander Hamilton came from a very remote place with a very bleak chance of doing anything notable, and the fact that he made it into America and his amazing intellect make him stand out, a one in a million sort of person

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''Life is like a box of chocolates.” -Forest Gump

This shows that you never know what will happen in your life. It compares life to a box of chocolates because you never know what you will get. It was a mother's loving way of explaining to a child that life – like choosing a chocolate from a box – is uncertain, has its ups and downs, and comes with its fair share of disappointments. The analogy is that, like a box of chocolates, life also has an element of unpredictability, no matter what we choose.

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"This ought to be a train wreck!"

-Max from Netflix's Oddballs

This is a metaphor. In the show, it compares the main character, James's, plan to race the school bully Stuart. This shows the odd logic of racing an RV with a broken-down golf cart, comparing it to a "train wreck", an incredibly disastrous incident, just like how Max predicts the race will go.

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Ms. Branning - Do NOT Put a Photo, Picture, Link, Etc. w/ your Post; Just Complete the written work

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Ms. Branning - Do NOT Put a Photo, Picture, Link, Etc. w/ your Post; Just Complete the written work

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Give your simile/metaphor in a quote.  After the quote, tell me where it came from (song, book, website, etc.).

“In the eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a rug laid for the feet of the coming sun . . .” — The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane

Then, explain.  Tell which type of figurative language it is.  Describe the comparison being made and what it shows.

This is a simile.

It compares a yellow patch of light in the sky to a rug set out to offer a walkway for the sun.  The simile paints a picture so that the reader can imagine how the path of the sun's light will follow almost like a carpet that is rolled out for one to walk on.  I think of a welcome mat outside one's door or a red carpet rolled out for an awards show.  The simile sets a mood that is warm, welcoming and inviting.