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Similes & Metaphors
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Brain Pop
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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.
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Simile
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Simile or Metaphor Zero was a mole as he dug his five-foot deep hole.
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Simile or Metaphor X-Ray was misnamed for he was really as blind as a bat.
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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.
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Simile or Metaphor Magnet’s fingers were sticky jam as he stole Mr. Sir's sunflower seeds.
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Metaphor
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Simile or Metaphor Caveman smelled like a skunk after days of not bathing.
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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.
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Metaphor
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Simile or Metaphor The Warden's nails were deadly weapons after she painted them with rattlesnake venom.
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Metaphor
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Simile or Metaphor Kate Barlow was as gentle as a lamb, while Kissin' Kate was as tough as nails.
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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.
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Simile or Metaphor 1. Sam's remedies made from onions were pure gold to the people of Green Lake.
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Simile or Metaphor 2. Charles Walker thought he was a tycoon since his family was the richest in Green Lake.
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Simile or Metaphor 3. Elya Yelnats' luck was poisoned meat that he passed down for generations to his family.
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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.
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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.
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Simile or Metaphor 6. Mr. Sir was meaner than Oscar the Grouch when he had to replace smoking with eating sunflower seeds.
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Simile or Metaphor 7. Mr. Pendanski's mean streak was as sure as death and taxes.
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Simile or Metaphor 8. Clyde Livingston's foot odor was as deadly as a revolver.
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Simile or Metaphor 9. Derrick Dunne was as mean as a bull approaching a matador.
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Simile or Metaphor 10. Mrs. Yelnats was as worried as a surrounded bank robber.
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