1. 1. The detective listened to her tales with a wooden face.
2. She was fairly certain that life was a fashion show.
3. The typical teenage boy’s room is a disaster area.
4. The children were roses grown in concrete gardens, beautiful and
forlorn.
5. That woman is the cancer of my dreams and aspirations.
6. Kisses are the flowers of love in bloom.
7. His cotton candy words did not appeal to her taste.
8. Kathy arrived at the grocery store with an army of children.
9. Waves of spam emails inundated his inbox.
10. Her eyes were fireflies.
11. He wanted to set sail on the ocean of love but he just wasted
away in the desert.
12. I was lost in a sea of nameless faces.
13. John’s answer to the problem was just a Band-Aid, not a
solution.
14. The cast on Michael’s broken leg was a plaster shackle.
15. In capitalism, money is the life blood of society and charity is the
soul.
16. Cameron always had a taste for the fruit of knowledge.
17. The promise between us was a delicate flower.
18. He pleaded for her forgiveness but Janet’s heart was cold iron.
19. The job fair was a circus and John was a dancing bear.
20. She was just a trophy to Ricardo, another object to possess.
21. The path of resentment is easier to travel than the road to
forgiveness.
22. When H-Money got on to stage, the girls went into a feeding
frenzy.
23. The child was our lone prayer to an empty sky.

2. 24. Katie’s plan to get into college was a house of cards on a crooked
table.
25. The wheels of justice turn slowly.
26. Laugh a drink from the deep blue cup of sky.
27. The job interview was a rope ladder dropped from heaven.
28. Her hair was a flowing golden river streaming down her
shoulders.
29. The computer in the classroom was an old dinosaur.
30. Laughter is the music of the soul.
31. David is a worm for what he did to Shelia.
32. The teacher planted the seeds of wisdom.
33. That burden is my cross to bear.
34. Each blade of grass was a tiny bayonet pointed firmly at our bare
feet.
35. The daggers of heat pierced through his black t-shirt.
36. In the ring Emilio was berserk pit bull hungry for blood.
37. The world is bowl a Jell-O.
38. And he was the word of God if God ever spoke.
39. Let your eyes drink up that milkshake sky.
40. Her hope was a fragile seed.
41. When Ninja Robots came on TV, the boys were glued in their
seats.
42. Words are the weapons with which we wound.
43. The test was a walk in the park.
44. She let such beautiful pearls of wisdom slip from her mouth
without even knowing.
45. The executives had golden parachutes to land safely after the
company crashed.
46. Don’t trouble your little peanut head over the problem.
47. She cut him down with her words.

3. 48. They say that scars are the roadmap to the soul.
49. The quarterback was throwing nothing but rockets and bombs in
the field.
50. We are all shadows on the wall of time.

4. . He marched off to class like a soldier on a mission.
2. Her smile was as bright as the sun.
3. The puddle seemed as big as the ocean.
4. When she gets embarrassed, her face turns as red as a clown's nose.
5. Grandma is as busy as a queen bee in her hive.
6. She screamed louder than a siren on a police car.
7. She ran like a race horse across the finish line.
8. He looked as tired as a marathon runner after a race.
9. Mother Theresa was a kind as Jesus himself.
10. Like a newly hatched chick, the infant stared at her proud parents.
11. He waved his blue ribbon looking as proud as a peacock.
12. He ate like he hadn't seen food in a week.
13. Her son is as smart as Albert Einstein on steroids.
14. She burned more calories than a team of football players at practice.
15. He swims like a fish in the ocean.
1. When he kissed her, it felt to her as though he were trying to win
a sword fight.
2. Allie’s cell phone dropped into the toilet like a falling star.
3. “Food?” Chris inquired, popping out of his seat like a toaster
strudel.

5. 4. Grandpa lounged on the raft in the middle of the pool like an old
battleship.
5. If seen from above the factory, the workers would have looked
like clock parts.
6. Toby manipulated the people in his life as though they were
chess pieces.
7. The people who still lived in the town were stuck in place like wax
statues.
8. Cassie talked to her son about girls as though she were giving
him tax advice.
9. Alan’s jokes were like flat soda to the children, surprisingly
unpleasant.
10. Their prayers were like mayflies in June.
11. My mother’s kitchen was like a holy place: you couldn’t wear
your shoes, you had to sit there at a certain time, and
occasionally we’d pray.
12. The bottle rolled off the table like a teardrop.
13. The handshake felt like warm laundry.
14. She hung her head like a dying flower.
15. Arguing with her was like dueling with hand grenades.
16. The classroom was as quiet as a tongue-tied librarian in a hybrid
car.
17. Janie’s boyfriend appreciated her as an ape might appreciate an
algebra book.
18. The child hung from his neck like an albatross.
19. The clouds were like ice-cream castles.
20. The shingles on the shack shook in the storm winds like scared
children.
21. When he reached the top of the hill, he felt as strong as a steel
gate.

6. 22. If the party was like a solar system, Jenna was like the sun.
23. When the tree branch broke, Millie fell from the limb like a robin’s
egg.
24. She swam through the waters like she was falling through a
warm dream.
25. They children ran like ripples through water.
26. Mikhail scattered his pocket change in front of the beggars like
bread crumbs.
27. She walks around like she’s the queen of Egypt.
28. Her hair was as soft as a spider web.
29. I saw you standing there like a temple.
30. Each dollar bill was a like a magic wand to cast away problems.
31. His shoes felt like large stone slabs.
32. The child held the blanket like a memory.
33. The ice sculptor’s hands fluttered like hummingbird wings.
34. Last winter was as long as a sad story.
35. The bike’s engine pinged like a shaking penny in a coffee can.
36. The paparazzi circled like vultures above a tottering camel.
37. I’m about as awesome as a flying giraffe.
38. Andre charged down the football field like the War of 1812.
39. The stars looked like stupid little fish.
40. Her laughter was like a warm blanket or a familiar song.
41. Blood seeped out of the wound like teardrops.
42. She was as distant as a remote tropical island, uncivilized and
beautiful.
43. Paul carried his science project to school like he was transporting
explosive glass.
44. The baby’s cry blended into the house much as the beach dweller
becomes unaware of the ocean sound.

7. 45. She looked at me like I was speaking in some strange alien
tongue.
46. The candidate’s acceptance speech was as awkward as a middle
school dance.
47. The town square was buzzing like a beehive.
48. Kelsey followed her dreams like most kids would follow a big
sister.
49. Martin’s in-laws charged through his life like a parade or a
funeral procession.
50. Kyle looked at the test with a stare as blank as his notebook.