Metaphors, Similes, and Analogies

The baseball was a speeding rocket.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Neither

My knees shook like an earthquake.

• simile
• metaphor
• neither

The store was a zoo!

• simile
• metaphor
• neither

She is as pale as a ghost.

• simile
• metaphor
• neither

Peter is as skinny as a bean pole.

• simile
• metaphor
• neither

Make this a simile.  She sings...

• at lunch
• at the crowd
• like a bird
• very well

A simile.....

• says that something actually is something else.
• compares two unlike things using the words like or as
• compares two similar things using the words like or as
• represents a person, an animal, an thing, or an idea.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A figure of speech describing one thing as something else (without using like or as) is known as _________________. 

• a metaphor
• a simile
• analogies
• personification

He is a monkey! This is a....

• simile
• metaphor
• neither

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

My brother was boiling mad.

• simile
• metaphor
• neither