{"id":107,"date":"2026-06-08T14:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2026-06-08T14:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:23:16","slug":"an-analysis-of-200000-similes-from-popular-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/2026\/06\/08\/an-analysis-of-200000-similes-from-popular-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pudding.cool\/2026\/05\/similes\/\">By Russell Samora. Design &#038; Illustration by Shelly Tan.<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Similes are all around us. But, if you haven\u2019t considered this figure of speech since grade school, here\u2019s a refresher: similes compare a shared quality of two things, often using \u201clike\u201d or \u201cas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I pulled every simile in the form \u201cas ___ as ___\u201d from tens of thousands of fiction books for the top 500 most common adjectives.<\/p>\n<p>To put you in a writer\u2019s mindset, fill in the blank of the simile below.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Russell Samora. Design &#038; Illustration by Shelly Tan.: Similes are all around us. But, if you haven\u2019t considered this figure of speech since grade school, here\u2019s a refresher: similes compare a shared quality of two things, often using \u201clike\u201d or \u201cas.\u201d I pulled every simile in the form \u201cas ___ as ___\u201d from tens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}