Metaphors Review

Let's review Metaphors!

Metaphors help writers express feelings more effectively.

Kisses are the flowers of love in bloom.

She was fairly certain that life was a fashion show.

The clouds sailed across the sky.

Her eyes were fireflies.

David is a worm for what he did to Shelia.

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 Select

Tick ALL the Metaphors

• My sister is taller than me!

• Boba is my life!

• The cinema is cold.

• This photo is gold!

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

Multiple Choice

Which metaphor works best?

• She built a wall of hurtful words around him.

• The wall was a big piece of wood.

• The sky was the whole universe.

Multiple Choice

Which metaphor works best?

• My mind is a ball of brains.

• My mind is full of blood.

• My mind of full of sand.

Open Ended

What do you think the metaphor this picture illustrates?

Open Ended

What do you think the metaphor this picture illustrates?

Open Ended

What do you think the metaphor this picture illustrates?

Multiple Choice

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."

-Muhammad Ali

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

"Love is an open door"

-Frozen

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

"The sun was a toddler... refusing to go to bed. It was past eight thirty and still light."

-John Green

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

"The musicians spun great webs of sound."

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

"Shake it like a Polaroid picture."

-Outkast

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

"The Parents Looked upon Matilda as nothing more than a scab"

-Roald Dahl

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

"I'm the glue"

-Travis Scott

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

She had "great masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires".

--Bram Stoker: From Dracula

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

"Stop eating like a pig!"

--Mom

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

"When the moon shines like Ice Road Truckers

I look like a villan 'outta those blockbusters"

--Godzilla, Eminem &Juice WRLD

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

"We will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. "

--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

(From his "I Have a Dream" speech)

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

"Fear fell from us like steel armor."

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

"Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood."

--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

From his "I Have a Dream" speech.

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

"We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."

--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

From his "I Have a Dream" speech

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

"Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice."

--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

From his "I Have a Dream" speech

• Simile

• Metaphor