Similies & Metaphors

The airplane was like a popsicle, it was red with a tail that looked like a stick.

• Metaphor

• Figurative Language

• Simile

• Conjunction

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Metaphor

• compares two or more things without using as, like etc.

• is a fancy way to compare things and give details

• is a fruit from Greece

• is a asteroid that will blow up planet earth

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

You are....... (Metaphor - finish the sentence)

• like a flower.

• wise as a mouse.

• awesome!

• such a clown!

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Mr. Kim's classroom ...... (simile sentence)

• is the bomb!

• is clean as a whistle.

• is beautiful.

• is so cool that you can sit on the floor without getting dirty.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

The math test ..... (metaphor)

• was so hard that it took a very long time to finish.

• was like an atomic bomb. That's how hard it was.

• was an atom bomb.

• was giving in the morning, instead on in the afternoon, like usual.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Why do you act like you are not trying?

• simile

• metaphor

• figurative language

• none

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

My life is ..... (metaphor)

• so much like a rollercoaster, it's not even funny.

• very unusual because I do a lot of crazy things.

• boring sometimes, but then sometimes it gets really exciting.

• boring at many times, but then it gets to be an inferno.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Mary likes apples as much as she likes oranges.

• simile

• metaphor

• simple sentence

• none

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

I sit.

• metaphor

• simile

• sentence fragment

• simple sentence

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

compound sentence

• She will go to school tomorrow.

• If she is not sick, then she will go to school.

• She will go to school and study for the test.

• She went to school.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.3A