Similes and Metaphors

​Personal Narratives: My Story, My Voice

Learning Objective:

SWBAT describe how author’s use of simile and metaphor achieves specific purposes.

Demonstration of Learning:

I will describe how author’s use of simile and metaphor achieves specific purposes.

Interactive Notebook

Define Simile and Metaphor
Find them in the song
Describe how they achieve a specific purpose.

Multiple Select

Select all of the similes.

• The man was strong as an ox

• he ice was a glacier in my glass.

• My teacher is as sharp as a tack.

• The little girl eats like a bird.

Multiple Select

Select all of the metaphors.

• The papers are a mountain on my desk.

• The kids were a hurricane in the playroom.

• The sound of rain was footsteps on the roof.

• It is raining like cats and dogs.

​Analyzing Similes and Metaphors

Drag and Drop

The hungry child ate his food like a pig.



In this simile, the ​

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is being compared to a ​

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Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

child

pig

hungry

food

ate

Multiple Choice

What does the simile, "The hungry child ate his food like a pig," mean?

• The child likes pigs

• The child ate a pig for dinner.

• The child was so hungry he ate in a fast sloppy manner.

• The child and a pig ate dinner together.

Multiple Choice

The figurative language in this sentence illustrates that —

• 1. leaves are quiet in the forest

• 1. leaves change colors in the fall

• 1. the forest provides natural resources

• the forest creates a sense of tranquility

Multiple Choice

Part A:

What type of figurative language contains the following sentence?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• idiom

• personification

Multiple Choice

Part B:

The figurative language in the sentence helps the reader understand that grandma’s hair is —

• 1. so beautiful that everybody would like to have it.

• 1. So tangled and dull that she struggles with it.

• 1. very smooth and shiny, nice to look at.

• very white that she looks older than she is.

Multiple Select

The sentence has a metaphor that compares life to a curly slide to demonstrate that life is —

Select TWO correct answers.

 

• 1. adventurous

• 1. happiness

• 1. a situation

• 1. encouragement

• unpredictable