Similes and Metaphors

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Similes and Metaphors
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE is a tool that an author uses
to help the reader visualize (or see) what is
happening in a story or poem.
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Simile

• A simile is a comparison using like or as.
• It usually compares two dissimilar objects.
• Example Playing chess with Ashley is like
  trying to outsmart a computer.
• The activity playing chess with Ashley is being
  compared to trying to outsmart a computer. The
  point is that Ashley can think in a powerful
  manner that resembles the way a computer
  operates, not that she is like a computer in any
  other way.

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Metaphor

• A metaphor states that one thing is something
  else. It is a comparison, but it does NOT use
  like or as to make the comparison.
• Example
• Her hair is silk.
• Her hair is being compared to silk. Meaning her
  hair is shiny and soft.

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Simile or Metaphor????

• The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the
  cans on the grocery store shelves.
• He was a tornado, blasting his way through the
  opposing team.
• As the teacher entered the room she muttered
  under her breath, "This class is like a
  three-ring circus!
• The pillow was a cloud when I put my head upon it
  after a long day.
• The giants steps were thunder as he ran toward
  Jack.
• He was a lion in the fight.

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Simile or Metaphor????

• I feel like a limp dishrag.
• Those girls are like two peas in a pod.
• The fluorescent light was the sun during our
  test.
• Sam waited impatiently for his older brother to
  calm down. Bill, I think you are acting like a
  baby, he said.
• The bar of soap was a slippery eel during the
  dogs bath.
• Ted was as nervous as a cat with a long tail in a
  room full of rocking chairs.

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Lets complete the similes below in an
imaginative way.  Ex I am as happy as . . .
the sun rising in the morning. Clumsy
asComplicated asIntelligent asExcited
as 
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Simile and Metaphor Game

• Find a partner
• You will have 15 minutes to come up with as many
  similes and metaphors for the word I give you
• You will get 1 point for each simile and 2 points
  for each metaphor
• They must be written so that I can read them

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Chocolate

• Make as many similes and metaphors as you can for
  this word!