Simile's , Metaphors, Idioms, and Personification

What is a example of a Simile

• The girl is an angel

• The boy has an ice-cream cone

• The baby waddled like a penguin

• The beach is nice

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What is an example of a metaphor

• The football player was as fast as a Cheetah

• Cookies are yummy

• Books are cool

• He is a tank!

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What is a metaphor?

• Compares something

• eats something

• does not use like and as

• CAN have something to do with food

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What is a simile

• CAN have animals included

• Compares something

• Uses as and like

• Always has a living thing included

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Which are similes?

• The boy is a pig.

• She went shopping.

• The butterfly is like a rainbow.

• The butterfly is a rainbow.

• The boy ate like a pig!

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Is this sentence a metaphor?

She has the heart of a lion.

• Yes

• No

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Is this sentence simile?

My memory is a little cloudy about that incident.

• Yes

• No

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Is this sentence a simile?

The towel is as wet as the ocean.

• No

• I don't know

• Yes

• This is too easy

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The person is as busy as a ______

• lion

• sloth

• bee

• snail

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Type simile or metaphor?

The monkeys actions are clumsy!

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