1. By: Abigail Petrassi and Alexander Cuniglio

2.  Similes are used often to present opinions.  If someone wanted to say that their stomach hurt they would say “My stomach rumbled like an earthquake.”  Their stomach did not do that but that is the point of a simile. To express an emotion or a feeling using a bigger, more powerful, and less similar word.

3.  Characters enjoy showing emotion. So often similes appear in dialogue between two characters.  Sometimes when a book wants to describe a person in a powerful way they will use a simile like “Billy’s voice roars like a dinosaur.”  This statement tells the reader that Billy is very loud.

4.  A simile usually starts with a pronoun or noun such as a name or a thing.  After that it shows a characteristic of that person or what they are doing so this can be a noun or verb.  Depending on if the previous step is a noun or a verb you might have to place a verb now if the first two words are nouns.

5.  Then the word like is placed in or as.  Usually this noun is something that is completely different from the person it may even be an object.  This is how you make a simile.  There are always different variations or different situations in which people use similes but this is the basic format.

6.  Most of the time they are used to show power in words.  You say these to prove to people just how much you mean what you say although it is not true.  It may be used for sarcasm or even just for fun.  Similes are popular in Literature today and even in people’s everyday lives.

7. I HOPE YOU KNOW ALL ABOUT SIMILES THANKS FOR READING!