Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction. By Russell Samora. Design & Illustration by Shelly Tan. 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 ___” fro...