Identifying Metaphors

Identifying Metaphors

Multiple Choice

What two things are compared in this metaphor? What do they have in common? I run. I’m a hawk, my talons holding the sky

• a hawk and the sky; they are both in the air

• the person talking and a hawk; speed & flight - the speaker feels like she's moving so fast that she's flying

• talons and claws; they both scratch

Multiple Choice

What two things are compared in this metaphor? What do they have in common? Loneliness is the red sound of your sleeping heart.

• Red and sound; they both make the speaker sad

• loneliness and the sound of a "sleeping heart"; they both are still and maybe sad or unable to feel

• loneliness and sleep; they both happen when you're alone

Multiple Choice

What else BESIDES light and learning are compared in this metaphor: The wound is where the light enters you.

• a wound and any kind of problem or trouble

• a wound and a burn

• a wound and entering

Multiple Choice

What is light compared to in this metaphor: The wound is where the light enters you.

• learning, improving, getting better

• darkness and anger

• entering

Open Ended

Try writing your own metaphor!

Copy & paste this sentence frame into your response:

When I __VERB__, I am ______

EAMPLE: When I run, I am wind. (Don't use RUN or WIND in yours.)