‘Dumped grape juice’ (“Face”)
The narrator confesses, “I look as if someone had dumped grape juice on me, a big, serious splash that turns into droplets only when it reaches my neck.” The narrator equates the birthmark on his face with ‘dumped grape juice’. The comparison highlights the color of the birthmark.
‘ ol’ witch with bats in the belfry’ (“Face”)
Sharon Suttles equates the narrator’s mother to “ an ol’ witch with bats in the belfry.” This metaphor has undesirable connotations and it is linked to the narrator’s deformity. Sharon Suttles relies on in stereotypes regarding deformity. Accordingly, she concludes that the narrator’s mother is a witch that is why she bore a child with a dreadful mark on his face.
“Its face was black as ink” (“Wild Swans”)
This simile makes reference to the face of a child that Flo witnessed die while in Toronto. Likening the child’s blackness to ink portrays the child’s paleness which made it evident that the child would not survive after the fit.
“Her brow is like the snowdrift” (“Wild Swans”)
This simile is drawn from the song that the undertaker used to sing. The simile likens the her’s forehead to a snowdrift. Through the comparison, the reader gets the image of a white and alluring forehead.
