Having Fun Like Squirrels Chasing Each Other Up and Down Trees on a Sunday Morning: Similes and Metaphors Exercise

If a person wants to be a body builder, it’s necessary to not only exercise but to eat healthy and to train properly when it comes to lifting weights.  If you to be a pro at any sport, you need to practice not just playing the game but different techniques and strategies that are going to play a significant role in how well you play the game.  Writing is definitely not an exception to the rule.  One of the exercises my practicum professor suggested that I do is to come up with similes and metaphors.  Even though it was fun, I must admit that I flexed some muscles I have not been using as frequently as I should.  I came up with thirty different similes and metaphors, and would like to share ten of them with you.  They may not all be the best, but it’s all in fun.

1. Your love is a 366-day-old lottery ticket.
2. You are the plucked gray hair no one will ever know about.
3. Caught in your speed trap with an expired license.
4. His words cut like a knife made out of play dough
5. Cumbersome like Shaquille O’Neal walking a tightrope backwards in six-inch heels.
6. I rise like a congratulations balloon escaping the grasp of a proud mother.
7. Relieved like a rose escaping the snip leading to its wilting death.
8. Count on me like an abacus.
9. Hard as thirteen year old gum under high school desks
10. Sorted out thoughts like a recycling center

If you have a fun simile or metaphor, please feel free to share.

All the best,

Tanya H. Franklin

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