Discuss the following cases of simile. Pay attention to the semantics of the tenor and the vehicle, to the briefer sustained manner of their presentation. Indicate the foundation of the simile, both explicit and implicit. Find examples of disguised similes, do not miss the link word joining the two parts of the structure: 1. The menu was rather less than a panorama, indeed, it was as repetitious as a snore. (O.N.) 2. The topic of the Younger Generation spread through the company like a yawn. (E.W.) 3. Penny-in-the-slot machines stood there like so many vacant faces, their dials glowing and flickering for nobody. (B.N.) 4. As wet as a fish as dry as a bone; As live as a bird as dead as a stone; As plump as a partridge as crafty as a rat; As strong as a horse as weak as a cat; As hard as a flintas soft as a mole; As white as a lily as black as coal; As plain as a pike as rough as a bear; As tight as a dramas free as the air; As heavy as lead as light as a feather; As steady as time uncertain as weather; As hot as an oven as cold as a frog; As gay as a larkas sick as a dog; As savage as a tiger as mild as u dove; As stiff as a poker as limp as a glove; As blind as a batas deaf as a post; As cool as a cucumber as warm as toast; As flat as a flounder as round as a ball; As blunt as a hammer as sharp as an awl; As brittle as glass as tough as gristle; As neat as a pinas clean as a whistle; As red as a rose as square as a box. (Ο.Ν.) 5. She has always been as live as a bird. (R.Ch.) 6. She was obstinate as a mule, always had been, from a child. (G.) 7. Children! Breakfast is just as good as any other meal and I won't have you gobbling like wolves. (Th. W.) 8. Six o'clock still found him in indecision. He had had no appetite for lunch and the muscles of his stomach fluttered as though a flock of sparrows was beating their wings against his insides. (Wr.) 9. And the cat, released, leaped and perched on her shoulder: his tail swinging like a baton, conducting rhapsodic music. (T.C.) 10. He felt that his presence must, like a single drop of some stain, tincture the crystal liquid that was absolutely herself. (R.W.) 11. He has a round kewpie's face. He looks like an enlarged, elderly, bald edition of the village fat boy, a sly fat boy, congenitally indolent, a practical joker, a born grafter and con merchant. (O'N.) 12. You could have knocked me down with a feather when he said all those things to me. I felt just like Balaam when his ass broke into light conversation. (S.M.) 13. Two footmen leant against the walls looking as waxen as the clumps of flowers sent up that morning from hothouses in the country. (E. W.) 14. The Dorset Hotel was built in the early eighteen hundreds and my room, like many an elderly lady, looks its best in subdued light. (J.Br.) tenor a room in the hotel; vehicle an elderly woman; the foundation 15. For a long while for many years in fact he had not thought of how it was before he came to the farm. His memory of those times was like a house where no one lives and where the furniture has rotted away. But tonight it was as if lamps had been lighted through all the gloomy dead rooms. (T.C.) 16. It was an unforgettable face, and a tragic face. Its sorrow welled out of it as purely, naturally and unstoppably as water out of a woodland spring. (J.F.) 17. He ached from head to foot, all zones of pain seemingly interdependent. He was rather like a Christmas tree whose lights wired in series, must all go out if even one bulb is defective. (S.)