Author Grace Lin make great use of the similes through out the book, "The Year of Dog." Do you know what a simile is? A simile (which is pronounced sim-uh-lee) is a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by "like" or "as". The author puts a simile on almost every page.Here are some examples:
p. 9 "Like the smell of roast pork, the news of Grandpa's good work spread..."
p. 80 "They sat there like a line of birds on a telephone wire, gossiping and sharing tea."
p. 104 "I felt like a thistle in a rose garden."
p. 120 "Like a creamy chocolate in my mouth, a warm feeling melted through me."
p. 130 "Like a rabbit hearing a gun fired, I jumped away."
Can you find anymore similes in the book? Can you write some of your own? Post a comment and tell what you found or share a simile of your own. Here's an idea to start with: complete this sentence "Coming to the end of summer is like ______"
