1. In many of the stories in Graveyard Girl, Wendy Lewis uses similes. The Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (on-line version) defines a simile as "a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses)." Because similes convey meaning, Lewis has some of her characters use similes that are consistent with their personalities. For example, while describing a scene from nature, Mandy Solesby, the daughter of a minister, says, "When I look up, the higher branches [of a willow tree] arch above me like a cathedral." In "Rabbits," hockey-jock and party animal Derek Papp describes a girl's eyes in the following way: "[Laura's] eyes are golden, too. They're usually hiding behind her glasses, but when she took them off the other day to wipe them, wham! It was like falling into...