Stupendous+Similes


 * The use of memorable similes is one of the stylistic hallmarks of Fred Chappell's //I Am One Of You Forever.// On this page, we'll collect and celebrate the best examples from the text.**

"He growled in low tones **like a bear trying to dislodge a groundhog from its hole**." p.4 (Meyer)

"I did feel that I was watching **someone as different from me as a muskrat**." p.29 (Speed)

"It seemed that the old man liked the shape his life had made in his mind; it was **like an antique statue of a godess, beautiful in its ruined lineaments**. p. 164 (Zoellick)

Over the low mumble of his words I heard a different rumble, a gurgle **as of pebbles pouring into a broad still pool**. p.4 (Zoellick)

We had a brief glimpse of the bridge parallel in the stream **like a strange boat**. p.5 (Zoellick)

For a long time nothing happened, but finally the vines began to fall back, rolling up in tangles **like barbarous handwriting** p.2 (Zoellick)

He had a dry crackling voice **like the sound of leaves burning** and I recoiled from the black valise **as is if I'd found a copperhead in it**. p. 137. (Howell)

It got cooler and the moon come up, turning the green leaves **as white as snow, and it was as quiet as the bottom of a well**. p. 109. (Howell)

But Setback wasn't nothing, only suspicious, and a week later he looks out and there was that same bear up in that same tree. **Like the King of England on his throne all of gold**." p. 100 (Maia Y)