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 ___” from tens of thousands of fiction books for the top 500 most common adjectives.

To put you in a writer’s mindset, fill in the blank of the simile below.