Simile

Scene: A clubhouse after school 
Parts: 11 boys and/or girls.

1:	Your head looks just like a bullet!
2:	Your ears are like snails!
3:	Your nose looks like a banana!
4:	Your neck is like a tree stump!
5:	You have legs like twigs!
6:	Hey, what's going on here?
7:	Oh, hi! You guys are late.
8:	Maybe we shouldn't have come at all.
9:	Why are you insulting each other?
10:	We're not really insulting each other, are we, Brain?
11:	Absolutely not!
1:	Your eyes are like BB's!	
2:	You have a voice like a siren!
3:	Your skin is as soft as cement!
4:	You walk like a hipopotamus on roller skates.
6:	Wait a minute!  There you go again.
5:	There we go again, what?
8:	The insults again.
9:	They're terrible!
7:	The Brain will tell you what we are doing.
10:	Tell them, Brain
11:	We are practicing similes.
6:	What's a simile?
1:	If you had been in English today...
2:	Instead of on that field trip ...
3: 	You'd know!
4:	A simile is comparing two things that are different...
5: 	In order to make a strong description.
7:	And it usually has the words like or as joining two parts.
1:	We were just having some fun by practicing similes as insults.
2:	 But they can be used in many ways.
3:	You could say, "Quick as a wink," or "Sharp as a tack."
5:	And twice as flat-headed!
6:	There you go again.  Let's try something else.
8:	Every day I say, "The school bus is as slow as molasses."
9:	And the food in the cafeteria is as cold as ice.
7:	And you always hear someone say, "This school is like a jail."
10:	Remember the old joke about teeth that uses a simile?
11:	Sure.  "Your teeth are like stars..."
1:	They come out at night."
2:	Say, I can use similes to make a hit with my steady.
3:	What are you going to say?
2:	Your hair is like soft silk.  Your eyes are like pools of crystal water.
4:	Wow! That should put you in good standing.
6:	For compliments like that, I'll be your steady.
7:	You'd never fit that description.  Your hair is like newspaper string and your eyes are like flying saucers.
6:	And your humor is as funny as a plane crash.
1:	Similes, here we come!
2:	My love for you is like a raging volcano.
3:	I'm as strong as a Saturn rocket.
6:	Hey!
7:	What?
8:	Simile . . .
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4:	As we left yesterday, our stars were about to have an argument.
5:	You're as sweet as vinegar.
6:	You're as honest as a two-headed nickel.
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