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              王科军

人生世上过，朋友直须多。

一枝梅独秀，还是不春波。

欲泻三江浪，方可挽长河。

图尽时近月，可谱半首歌。

                             Similes and Prepositions

A: Oh, excuse me, Dr Jill I am still picking up from the weekend. My house looks like a hurricane hit it.

B: What happened?

A: My family came for a visit. They have three kids under five. It was a three-ring circus!

B: I know what you mean! I have some little nephews that are like that. And you gave me a good idea for a lesson.

A: Oh, good. You can tell me while I finish cleaning up.

B: Okay, you used two similes to describe the situation in your house. A simile uses the word “like” or “as” to describe someone or something. By making a comparison to someone or something else. First, you said it looks like a hurricane hit. We all know the strong wind of a hurricane leave many broken things.

A: Yes, that looks a little like my house today.

B: So, when you compare one thing to a different thing, you are using a simile. The other simile you said was “It was like a three-ring circus!”

A: Here’s my favorite one---when the children are in bed, we say they are “snug as a bug in a rug” .

B: Haha. I hope there are no bugs in your rug! And that’s Everyday Grammar!

Comfortable, cozy, pleasing, easeful, homelike. MEANS snug.

                               What is Simile

Simile: it is a comparison between two distinctly different things and the comparison is indicated by the word as or like:

O my love’s like a red, red rose.

That man can’t be trusted. He’s as slippery as an eel.  The old man’s hair is as white as snow.

In above three examples people and things of different categories are compared: a woman and a rose, a man and an eel, and hair and snow. But each pair have one similarity: loveliness, slipperiness and whiteness. The discrepancy between the two things compared makes their similarity all the more striking.