like a bicycle
After the narrator meets Linda in a bar, Linda hugs him tightly and he remembers the way that Linda had felt like in bed. The narrator uses a simile in which he compares how Linda had felt in bed to a bicycle: "She wrapped me up in a hug and I remembered how much like a bicycle she had felt in bed." The narrator uses this metaphor for sex.
The voices of the artistic purists
The narrator uses a simile in which he compares the scratch of overuse in the voices of the people who screamed at his sister calling her a murderer to the twisting of metal. The simile enhances the perception of the voices of the purists as hoarse and cracked: "Their voices had the scratch of overuse, like the twisting of metal."
sweatin like a f*ckin pig
After having a dream in which the narrator of "My Pafology" kills his mother, the narrator wakes up soaked in sweat and he uses a simile to compare the way he was soaking in sweat to the sweating of a pig. This particular language use enhances imagery: "I wake up and I’m just soaked in sweat, been sweatin like a f*ckin pig."
giant jugs metaphor for breasts
The narrator in My Pafology uses the term "giant jugs" as a metaphor for Cleona's breasts. Additionally, he compares the flopping of Cleona's breasts to big pillows and bags of sand. The use of these similes enhances imagery: "Those giant jugs just flop there like big pillows, like bags of sand."
Act just like a punk
When Tito asks the narrator why he scared Yellow, the narrator uses "punk" to refer to Yellow, a metaphor for a worthless person: “Sometimes he act just like a punk. You think he a punk?”
