Paper 8

1. What are the components of simile?

2. What is foundation of simile?

3. Learn the following phrases and use them in your own sentences:

As wet as a fish-as dry as a bone; As live as a bird - as dead as a stone;

As plump as a partridge - as crafty as a rat;

As strong as horse - as weak as a cat;

As hard as flint - as soft as a mole;

As white as a lily- as black as coal;

As plain as a pike - as rough as a bear;

As tight as a drum - as free as the air;

As heavy as lead - as light as a feather;

As steady as time - as uncertain as weather;

As hot as an oven - as cold as a frog;

As gay as lark - as sick as a dog;

As savage as a tiger - as mild as a dove;

As stiff as a poker - as limp as a glove;

As blind as a bat - as deaf as a post;

As cool as a cucumber - as warm as toast;

As flat as flounder - as round as a ball;

As blunt as a hammer - as sharp as an awl;

As brittle as glass - as tough as gristle;

As neat as a pin - as clean as a whistle;

As red as a rose - as square as a box

As plain as a pike - as rough as a bear;

As tight as a drum - as free as the air;

As heavy as lead - as light as a feather;

As steady as time - as uncertain as weather;

As hot as an oven - as cold as a frog;

As gay as lark - as sick as a dog;

As savage as a tiger - as mild as a dove;

As stiff as a poker - as limp as a glove;

As blind as a bat - as deaf as a post;

As cool as a cucumber - as warm as toast;

As flat as flounder - as round as a ball;

As blunt as a hammer - as sharp as an awl;

As brittle as glass - as tough as gristle;

As neat as a pin - as clean as a whistle;

As red as a rose - as square as a box (O.N.)

4. Discuss the following cases of simile

1. The menu was rather less than a panorama, indeed, it was as repetitious as a snore.

3. 2. The topic of the Younger Generation spread through the company like a yawn.

   She was obstinate as a mule, always had been, from a child. (G.)

4. Children! Breakfast is just as good as any other meal and I won't have you gobbling like wolves. (Th. W.)

5. Six o'clock still found him in indecision. He had had no appetite for lunch and the muscles of his stomach fluttered as though a flock of sparrows was beating their wings against his insides. (Wr.)

6. And the cat, released, leaped and perched on her shoulder: his tail swinging like a baton, conducting rhapsodic music (T.C.)

7. You could have knocked me down with a feather when he said all those things to me. I felt just like Balaam when his ass broke into light conversation.

8. Dorset Hotel was built in the early eighteen hundreds and my room, like many an elderly lady, looks its best in subdued light.

9. He ached from head to foot, all zones of pain seemingly interdependent. He was rather like a Christmas tree whose lights wired in series, must all g out if even one bulb is defective.

10. Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases so that one is never sure whether she will come at all nor for how long she will stay.