Which excerpt from "the life you save may be your own" contains an example of a simile? after a few minutes there was a guffawing peal of thunder from behind and fantastic raindrops, like tin-can tops, crashed over the rear of mr. Shiftlet’s car. "fifteen, sixteen," the old woman said. The girl was nearly thirty but because of her innocence it was impossible to guess. "i was raised thataway and there ain’t a thing i can do about it. My old mother taught me how to do. " "that wouldn’t hardly pay for more than the gas and the hotel," he said. "it wouldn’t feed her. ".