Friday, 12 July 2013

Smiling at Similes

Similes are lots of fun! Language is so interesting in the way it creatively allows us to express ourselves.

To recap, a simile is a figure of speech comparing one thing to another unlike thing using either "as... as..." or "... like...".

Here are the lyrics from Lenka's Song 'Everything At Once' which was featured as the song of the advertisement launching the new Windows 8. Let's see if you're able to spot all the similes here? Are you able to creatively come up with your own similes to a similar tune like hers?

As sly as a fox, as strong as an ox
As fast as a hare, as brave as a bear
As free as a bird, as neat as a word

As quite as a mouse, as big as a house

All I wanna be, all I wanna be, oh
All I wanna be is everything

As mean as a wolf, as sharp as a tooth
As deep as a bite, as dark as the night
As sweet as a song, as right as a wrong
As long as a road, as ugly as a toad
As pretty as a picture hanging from a fixture

Strong like a family, strong as I wanna be
Bright as day, as light as play
As hard as nails, as grand as a whale

All I wanna be, oh, all I wanna be, oh

All I wanna be is everything, everything at once
Everything at once, oh, everything at once

warm as the sun, as silly as 
As cool as a tree, as scary as the sea
As hot as fire, cold as ice
Sweet as sugar and everything nice
As old as time, as straight as a line

As royal as a queen, as buzzed as a bee
As stealth as a tiger, smooth as a glider
Pure as a melody, pure as I wanna be

All I wanna be, oh, all I wanna be, oh
All I wanna be is everything, everything at once
[ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/everything-at-once-lyrics-lenka.html ]





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