What is a good simile in the book Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll?

Answer 1

• Let's pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, it's turning into a sort of mist now, I declare!

• She was up on the chimney-piece while she said this, though she hardly knew how she had got there. And certainly the glass was beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist.

• But how curiously it twists! It's more like a corkscrew than a path!

• 'Her petals are done up close, almost like a dahlia,' the Tiger-lily interrupted: 'not tumbled about anyhow, like yours.'

• 'I declare it's marked out just like a large chessboard!' Alice said at last. 'There ought to be some men moving about somewhere- and so there are!'

• 'Now then! Show your ticket, child!' the Guard went on, looking angrily at Alice. And a great many voices all said together ('like the chorus of a song,' thought Alice), 'Don't keep him waiting, child! Why, his time is worth a thousand pounds a minute!'

• 'I'm sure I'm very sorry,' was all Alice could say; for the words of the old song kept ringing through her head like the ticking of a clock, and she could hardly help saying them out loud: --

• They looked so exactly like a couple of great schoolboys, that Alice couldn't help pointing her finger at Tweedledum, and saying 'First Boy!'

• Here she checked herself in some alarm, at hearing something that sounded to her like the puffing of a large steam-engine in the wood near them, thought she feared it was more likely to be a wild beast. 'Are there any lions or tigers about here?' she asked timidly. 'It's only the Red King snoring,' said Tweedledee.

• 'If that there King was to wake,' added Tweedledum, 'you'd go out- bang!- just like a candle!'

• But he couldn't quite succeed, and it ended in his rolling over, bundled up in the umbrella, with only his head out: and there he lay, opening and shutting his mouth and his large eyes- 'looking more like a fish than anything else,' Alice thought.

• Her screams were so exactly like the whistle of a steamengine, that Alice had to hold both her hands over her ears.

• 'How can she knit with so many?' the puzzled child thought to herself. 'She gets more and more like a porcupine every minute!'

• - and these, being dream-rushes, melted away almost like snow, as they lay in heaps at her feet-

• 'And how exactly like an egg he is!' she said aloud, standing with her hands ready to catch him, for she was every moment expecting him to fall.

• 'I said you looked like an egg, Sir,' Alice gently explained. 'And some eggs are very pretty, you know, she added, hoping to turn her remark into a sort of a compliment.

• You see it's like a portmanteau- there are two meanings packed up into one word.

• 'Well, "toves' are something like badgers- they're something like lizards- and they're something like corkscrews.'

• 'To "gyre" is to go round and round like a gyroscope. To "gimble" is to make holes like a gimblet.'

• And a "borogove" is a thing shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round- something like a live mop.'

• (For the messenger kept skipping up and down, and wriggling like an eel, as he came along, with his great hands spread out like fans on each side.)

• And Hatta went bounding away like a grasshopper.

• Haigha took a large cake out of the bag, and gave it to Alice to hold, while he got out a dish and carving-knife. How they all came out of it Alice couldn't guess. It was just like a conjuring-trick, she thought.

• 'What's this!' he said, blinking lazily at Alice, and speaking in a deep hollow tone that sounded like the tolling of a great bell.

• What a noise they make when they tumble! Just like a whole set of fire- irons falling into the fender! And how quiet the horses are! They let them get on and off them just as if they were tables!'

• First you take an upright stick,' said the Knight. 'Then you make your hair creep up it, like a fruit-tree.

• Who are you, aged man?'

  I said. "and how is it you live?"

  And his answer trickled through my head

  Like water through a sieve.

• Whose look was mild, whose speech was slow,

  Whose hair was whiter than the snow,

  Whose face was very like a crow,

  With eyes, like cinders, all aglow,

• And muttered mumblingly and low,

  As if his mouth were full of dough,

  Who snorted like a buffalo --

  That summer evening, long ago,

  A-sitting on a gate.'

• Alice sighed and gave it up. 'It's exactly like a riddle with no answer!' she thought.

• 'Waiter! Bring back the pudding!' and there it was again in a moment like a conjuring-trick.

• 'Her Red Majesty's very kind to mention it,' the White Queen murmured into Alice's other ear, in a voice like the cooing of a pigeon.

• all the guests began drinking it directly, and very queerly they managed it: some of them put their glasses upon their heads like extinguishers, and drank all that trickled down their faces

• The candles all grew up to the ceiling, looking something like a bed of rushes with fireworks at the top.

Answer 2

One example of a simile in "Through the Looking Glass" is "as dry as a potsherd." This simile is used to describe the character Humpty Dumpty's tone of voice.