Simile and Metaphor

Simile

• You know how most little kids think they're like cartoon characters.
• Actually, that's not quite true-right now she doesn't have it, but it's hibernating under her skin like a bear
• Movement like this are the same kind of vacuum.
• I turn on the water in the bathtub so it sounds like I'm in there for a reason
• I avoid like the Black Plague
• Aner glows around this kid like electricity
• Trailing her spine, like a line of small blue jewels, are a string of bruises
• Jesse looks more like me-skinny,dark,cerebal
• Her mind us running in circles, like a gerbil  on a wheel, the same way mine is.
• Kate to get honestly excited about things like homecoming and SATs, when there was no gurrantee she'd be around to expperience them.

Metaphor

• My father says that a fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel.
• Even if i spend every minute of the rest of my life reading
• If you don't want to be my sister anymore, that's one thing. But I don't think I could stand to lose you as a friend.