Ramshackle House, James & the Giant Peach

She was like a great white soggy overboiled cabbage.

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...these two ghastly hags, sipping their drinks...

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes something by saying it's something else.

"as lovely as a rose!"

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"you disgusting little worm!"

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes something by saying it's something else.

...tiny green things that looked like little stone or crystals.

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"you disgusting little beast."

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes something by saying it's something else.

...a long thin streak of blackish-blue, like a line of ink, beneath the rim of the sky.

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"The nasty little beast will only get into mischief..."

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes something by saying it's something else.

The breath smelled musty and static and slightly mildewed, like air in an old cellar.

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He could see the peach swelling larger and larger as clearly as if it were a balloon being blown up.

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