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[Dante]

Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise

An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.

pudding.cool

Wrong, do it again!
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding!
(Wrong, do it again!)
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
(Wrong, do it again!)

It's not "pudding," but it will have to do.

 

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This thread is as effective as a speck of dust facing a category 5 tornado.

 

[Dante]

Comparisons​

An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.

By Russell Samora. Design & Illustration by Shelly Tan.
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Similes are all around us. But, if you haven’t considered this figure of speech since grade school, here’s a refresher: similes compare a shared quality of two things, often using “like” or “as.”

I pulled every simile in the form “as _ as _” from tens of thousands of fiction books for the top 500 most common adjectives.

To put you in a writer’s mindset, fill in the blank of the simile below.

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