Simile Examples Using As. Dive into a list of phrases that use the format " as something as something else " to make a comparison. as American as apple pie. as big as an elephant. as black as coal. as blind as a bat. as boring as watching paint dry. as brave as a lion. as busy as a bee.

A simile is a figure of speech and type of metaphor that compares two different things using the words "like" or "as." . The purpose of a simile is to help describe one thing by comparing it to another thing that is perhaps seemingly unrelated. For example, when Forrest Gump, the titular character from the 1994 film Forrest Gump, uses the simile, "Life is like a box of chocolates," he is intending to show how unpredictable life is, in much the same way as picking a random ...