1. Similes & Metaphors

2. Similes 
A simile is a comparison between two unlike things that have something in common. A simile always uses the words like or as to make a comparison.

3. Similes 
Examples
It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog. - The Beatles
My heart is like an open highway. - Jon Bon Jovi
like two peas in a pod
like Christmas in summer
snow was like a blanket
my love is like a red, red rose
deer ran like the wind

4. Similes More Examples as hungry as a bear as nutty as a fruitcake
as quick as lightning
as slippery as an eel
as solid as a rock
as stubborn as a mule
as sturdy as an oak

5. Metaphors
A metaphor is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that have something in common. The comparison is made without the use of like or as.

6. Metaphors
Examples
Patty was a raging tiger when she lost her lunch money.
During the night the forest was a dark, frightening battlefield.
A heart of stone (from Rebecca)
He has the heart of a lion.
You are the sun in my sky.
You are the light in my life.
She is my East and my West, my compass.

7. Metaphors More Examples
Life is a mere dream, a fleeting shadow on a cloudy day.
Love is a lemon - either bitter of sweet. (from Scott)
Drowning in the sea
Jumping for joy
Rolling in dough
Apple of my eye
It is raining cats and dogs.
Love is a fragile flower opening to the warmth of spring.

8. Brain Pop

9. Simile or Metaphor
Stanley Yelnats was as nervous as a cat with a long tail in a room full of rocking chairs as he rode the bus to Camp Green Lake.

10. Simile

11. Simile or Metaphor
Zero was a mole as he dug his five-foot deep hole.

12. Metaphor

13. Simile or Metaphor
X-Ray was misnamed for he was really as blind as a bat.

14. Simile

15. Simile or Metaphor
Squid was a wounded animal on the inside even though he taunted Stanley about receiving letters from, and writing to, his mother.

16. Metaphor

17. Simile or Metaphor
Magnet’s fingers were sticky jam as he stole Mr. Sir's sunflower seeds.

18. Metaphor

19. Simile or Metaphor
Caveman smelled like a skunk after days of not bathing.

20. Simile

21. Simile or Metaphor
Zigzag had a heart of stone when he would not apologize to Stanley after hitting him in the head with a shovel.

22. Metaphor

23. Simile or Metaphor
The Warden's nails were deadly weapons after she painted them with rattlesnake venom.

24. Metaphor

25. Simile or Metaphor
Kate Barlow was as gentle as a lamb, while Kissin' Kate was as tough as nails.

26. Simile

27. Practice
Number your paper from 1 to 10. For each of the following determine if the sentence contains a simile or metaphor. Write your answer on your paper.

28. Simile or Metaphor
1. Sam's remedies made from onions were pure gold to the people of Green Lake.

29. Simile or Metaphor
2. Charles Walker thought he was a tycoon since his family was the richest in Green Lake.

30. Simile or Metaphor
3. Elya Yelnats' luck was poisoned meat that he passed down for generations to his family.

31. Simile or Metaphor
4. Madame Zeroni's rage was a curse after Elya broke his promise to carry her to the top of a mountain.

32. Simile or Metaphor
5. Stanley Yelnats I was as happy as a rat with a gold tooth when he reached the summit of the of top of the thumb shaped mountain.

33. Simile or Metaphor
6. Mr. Sir was meaner than Oscar the Grouch when he had to replace smoking with eating sunflower seeds.

34. Simile or Metaphor
7. Mr. Pendanski's mean streak was as sure as death and taxes.

35. Simile or Metaphor
8. Clyde Livingston's foot odor was as deadly as a revolver.

36. Simile or Metaphor
9. Derrick Dunne was as mean as a bull approaching a matador.

37. Simile or Metaphor
10. Mrs. Yelnats was as worried as a surrounded bank robber.