Day 106: Similes and Metaphors

 This is an exercise my teacher gave me a few months back.  It's various sentences that you fill in the blanks for, and they're supposed to help you write similes and metaphors.

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1. A spider on an old man's beard is like a speck of sin on a pure snowy heart.
2. The oars on the boat rowed as if they were knives gliding through soft salty butter.
3. Nothing was the same, now that it was winter, and the snow had draped over all the tree boughs, confusing the girls from which why was the correct way home.
4. The wino took to coma like donkeys take to carrying heavy loads.
5. The dice rolled out of the cup toward Len like Jack and Jill tumbling down the hill.
6. A child in costume is like a witch doctor in a mask.
7. Puffy clouds in your glass of wine are gross.
8. The drum cover is like muscles stretched taut over bone.
9. The fog plumed through the gunshot holes in the train windows like the billowing pillars that can be found in Rome.
10. The gray honor walked up the satin plank as if he were walking through the woods with his lover's arm linked through his arm.
11. Canceled checks in the abandoned boat seem forlorn.
12. If I should wake before I die, I would soak up every minute I still had left.
13. Alannah poured coffee down her throat as if she hadn't drunk any in years.
14. Up is like down when your head is not around.
15. You mine rocks from a quarry. What you get from a quandary is like scattered puzzle pieces that came from the rock chips of the quarry.
16. Marlene dangled the parson from her questions as if he were treacherous.
17. She held her life in her own hands as if it were a baby bird fallen from a nest.
18. "No, no, a thousand times no," he said, his hand vibrating up and down from rage.
19. The solution was hydrochloric acid; the problem was, therefore, a skin disease.
20. Love is to open sky as loathing is to a grave.