Similes and Metaphors

What is figurative language?

• Language that means more than what the words say.
• Language that means just what the words say.

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Simile or Metaphor?
This house is as clean as a whistle.

• simile
• metaphor

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Simile or Metaphor?
He was scared so much he was as white as a ghost.

• simile
• metaphor

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The band played as loud as a sonic boom.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• eardrums

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When two unlike things are being compared using like or as, it is called a

• simile
• hyperbole
• idiom
• metaphor

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A comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as' is:

• alliteration
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor

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Identify the Simile below...

• The tree danced in the wind.
• She is as tall as a tree!
• That cat is the devil.
• My backpack weighs a thousand tons!

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What two things are being compared in the following simile?
Sylvia's new lotion made her face as smooth as baby skin. 

• Sylvia's face and baby's skin
• Lotion and Sylvia's face.
• Sylvia and her face.
• Sylvia and smooth. 

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What is the meaning of the following Simile?
Sylvia's new lotion made her face as smooth as a baby's skin.

• Sylvia's face was really rough.
• Sylvia's face was really smooth. 
• Sylvia's face was oily. 
• Sylvia's face was really dry. 

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The best friends had so much in common they were like two peas in a pod. 
What are the words in blue an example of?

• Simile
• Metaphor

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