"Sudden gray phantoms" - Metaphor - people are compared to ghosts, "tomb-like building" - Simile - the houses are like tombs: cold and lifeless, "skeletal pattern" - Metaphor - the structure of a leaf is compared to a skeleton, "lungs blaze like a Christmas tree" - Simile - his lungs are compared to a bright light - full of life, "his shadow moving like the shadow of a hawk" - Simile - Leonard Mead is compared to a hawk as he belongs in nature, "a wintry, windless Arizona desert" - Metaphor - the city is compared to an empty wasteland or wilderness, "a cloverleaf intersection" - Metaphor - the highway junction is compared to a cloverleaf, "The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest" - Simile - the light is compared to a needle; sharp and damaging, "the people sat like the dead" - Simile - the people are compared to the dead, as they sit silent and unmoving, only half alive, "He walked like a man suddenly drunk" - Simile - Leonard Mead is compared to a drunk man as he is confused and bewildered by his arrest,

The Pedestrian Similes and Metaphors

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