simile and metaphor

This literary device allows the writer to make a comparison using the words "like" or "as."

• preposition

• conjunction

• simile

• metaphor

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Simile or Metaphor?
My brother was boiling mad.

• simile
• metaphor

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What is the meaning of the following simile?
"as hungry as a bear recently awakened from hibernation"

• Someone is really hungry
• Someone is slightly sleepy
• Someone is extremely sleepy.
• Someone is slightly hungry. 

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What two things are being compared in the following metaphor?
Her diary was her best friend, guarding her secrets quietly.

• "best friend" and "secrets"
• "diary'' and "secrets" 
• "Diary" and "her best friend"
• "her" and "diary" 

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What is the meaning of the following metaphor?
Her diary was her best friend, guarding all of her secrets. 

• Her best friend was writing in her diary.
• Her diary was open so that everyone could see her secrets
• Her secrets weren't safe in her diary.
• Her secrets are safe because they are written in her diary, which could not talk. 

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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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What two things are being compared in the following metaphor?
The crab was a dancing pair of scissors, clicking across the sand. 

• Crab and Sand
• Crab and dancing scissors
• Scissors and sand
• Dancing and sand. 

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This literary device allows the writer to compare things WITHOUT using the words "like" or "as."

• interjection

• conjunction

• comma

• metaphor

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Similes and metaphors are poetic devices. What does this mean?

• Every poem has at least one simile or metaphor

• They are literary techniques commonly found in poetry

• They are rarely used in writings other than poetry

• They are tricks poets use to fool their readers

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What is a simile?

• a comparison using the words "like" or "as"

• a comparison that does not use the words "like" or "as"

• An adverbial phrase that compares one thing to another

• a type of poem in which two things are compared

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