The Most Dangerous Game

Examples of simile and metaphor in The Most Dangerous Game

and one example in an antagonist

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"The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window." (Metaphor)

"but his thick eyebrows and pointed military mustache were as black as the night.." (Simile, plus it's about the antagonist Zaroff!)

There is one very early that says the ocean is like black velvet. Rainsford later uses an old metaphor to describe both himself and the general: I was the mouse to the Cossack's cat. He also compares the general to the devil. One last simile would be when the general is surprised at Rainsford's values and says that they are out of place,"like finding a snuff box in a limousine."

He strained his eyes in the direction from which the reports had come but it was like

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