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