6) The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
5) Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man."
4) Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. travelling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
3) John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
2) The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.
1) The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.
