Poetry

Investigating Similes in Poetry

by Baily Zanish

Multiple Choice

A simile...

• compares two things

• contrasts two things

• smiles at you

• f

Multiple Choice

A person

compared to a turtle

What could they have in common?

• being green

• having a shell

• being slow

• being fast

​The Basketball

By Stacy Zeiger

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The basketball is an airplane, It flies down the court heading Straight for the basket.

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The basketball is like a heartbeat Pounding rhythmically on the Gymnasium floor.

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The basketball is as smooth as butter As it slides out of my hands and Into the basket.

Multiple Choice

The basketball is like a heartbeat

Pounding rhythmically on the Gymnasium floor.

How is the basketball like the heartbeat 

loor.

• the sound 

• the size 

• the shape 

Multiple Choice

How is the homework like the kibble?loor.

• both are food 

• both were eaten by the dog

• both are important

Multiple Choice

Similes help us

• learn what the characters are thinking

• understand what is happening

• picture things in our minds

​Read the first three verses (lines) and picture what their faces would look like?

Multiple Choice

What would their face look like?

When this person leaves the lost and found what would they like look like?

Open Ended

You have 3 minutes, write as many similes as you can.