1. Past perfect worksheet Metaphors and Similes Worksheet

2. Minds-On Quickly write down your answers to these questions:
What made you laugh yesterday?
If you could compare one of your teachers to an animal or object, what would you compare him/her to.

3. My students are as beautiful as the sun.
To know the past perfect, and what metaphors and similes are.
To understand how to use the past perfect, and how to use metaphors and similes.
To be able to use the past perfect in sentences, and to use metaphors and similes in a sentence.
Metaphor; Simile;
Tense; Infinitive; Comparison

8. Similes and Metaphors OBJECTIVES: Define a simile and a metaphor
Understand the purpose of similes and metaphors
Explore similes and metaphors in literature and music
Create your own similes and metaphors

9. Definition of Simile
A simile is a comparison of two unlike things using ‘like’ or ‘as’
What are the purposes of writing simile?
Authors use simile to explain, express emotion, and to make their writing more vivid and entertaining

10. Simile: Examples The night was as black as coal.
The paper is as light as a feather.
The ocean was like a raging bull.
Her eyes shone like stars in the night sky.
The horse moved with lightning speed.
created by Dianne St Clair

11. Simile in Poetry “O my luve's like a red, red rose.
That's newly sprung in June;
O my luve's like a melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune.”
excerpt from A Red, Red Rose
by Robert Burns
Challenge:
Could you explain in your groups what this poet is trying to say in simple English (prose)? (2-min)

12. Similes in Literature
“In the eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a rug laid for the feet of the coming sun...”
The Red Badge Of Courage
by Stephen Crane
“The café was like a battleship stripped for action.”
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
“She is, as sailors say, like a lady's watch, always out of repair.”
Two Years Before The Mast
by Richard Henry Dana Jr.

13. Simile: More Examples! For more examples of simile .
created by Dianne St Clair

14. Definition of Metaphor
A metaphor is a comparison that says one thing is something else.
Literally, it is not!
Her laugther is a gentle song.
Metaphors are similar to similes, but make a comparison instead of actually suggesting that two things are essentially the same.
created by Dianne St Clair

15. Examples of Metaphors She is sunshine, brightening our day
A blank page is a playground for imagination
The melody is a balm to my soul.
The wheels of justice turn slowly.
His cotton candy words did not appeal to
her taste.
Challenge:
Could you explain in your groups what these sentences are trying to say in simple English (prose)? (2-min)
created by Dianne St Clair

16. Metaphor in Poetry "The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.“
Fog
by Carl Sandburg

17. Metaphor in Poetry "Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility."...
extract from 'Because I could not stop for Death‘
by Emily Dickenson

18. Metaphor in Literature
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
As You Like It
— William Shakespeare, As You Like It
This quote is a metaphor because the world is not literally a stage. By figuratively asserting that the world is a stage, Shakespeare uses the points of comparison between the world and a stage to convey how the world works and the lives of the people within it.

19. Simile or Metaphor?
The field is a rainbow of colors.
METAPHOR

20. Simile The trees are like a canopy covering the road.
Simile or Metaphor?
The trees are like a canopy covering the road.
Simile

21. The lake is a mirror of beauty.
Simile or Metaphor?
The lake is a mirror of beauty.
METAPHOR

22. Simile or Metaphor?
The clouds are like balls of cotton.
Simile

23. Similes and Metaphors in Music
Look and listen for similes and metaphors in these song clips!
created by Dianne St Clair

24. Consolidation
Which one do you think is more effective? Metaphor or Simile? Why?
Do you know why it’s good to study Similes and Metaphors?
Task:
Each group writes 3 sentences. Two similes and one metaphor; or, one simile and two metaphors.