What are some similes and metaphors in Coraline?

Answer 1

Similes:

“The mist hung like blindness around the house”.(Page 23)

“There was a tiny doubt inside her, like a maggot in an apple core.” (Page 47)

“Only her skin was white as paper.”(Page 27)

“Everyone knows that a soul is the same size as a beach ball”.(page 66)

“Everything in it was gray—no, not quite everything: something glinted on the floor, something the color of an ember in a nursery fireplace, the color of a scarlet-and-orange tulip nodding in the May sun”.(page 68)

Metaphors-

1..” “Ah, but she'll keep you here while the days turn to dust and the leaves fall and the years pass one after the next like the tick-tick-ticking of a clock.”(PAge 61)

2.”She looked like a large, fluffy egg”.(Page 18)

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Answer 2

Some similes in "Coraline" include "like a knife cutting through butter" and "as cold as ice." Metaphors include describing the Other Mother as a "spider with a sweet voice" and the Other World as a "beautiful, dangerous place disguised as something wonderful."