What does the simile in this text suggest?
My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
—Forrest Gump
Life is luxurious. Life is unpredictable.
Figures of speech are words or phrases that use language in a nonliteral or unusual way. They can make writing more expressive.
A simile uses like or as to compare two things that are not actually alike.
The cat's fur was as dark as the night.
The text includes a simile, using like or as to compare two things that are not actually alike.
The simile life was like a box of chocolates suggests that life is unpredictable. You don't know what type of filling is inside a chocolate until you try it, just as you don't know what life holds for you until it happens.