What is a metaphor?

• Is when you describe something by giving hints

• Is when someone compares you to something without saying like

• I don't know

• Is when someone compares you to something using like

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Which phrase is NOT a simile?

• He's a workhorse

• He's as strong as an ox

• He is as fast as a cheetah

• You're as cold as ice

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Read the following passage.

Adam’s love for Pizza burns bright, an undying flame that can never be extinguished, not even by a bad pepperoni.

Which of the following best describes the metaphor in this passage?

• Adam’s love for pizza is compared to a bad pepperoni.

• Adam loves pizza.

• Adam’s love for pizza is compared to a flame.

• Adam’s love is compared to a pizza.

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Kate was a busy beaver as she prepared for her birthday party

The words in blue are an example of what?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Clue

• Illitiration

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What does "Blind as a Bat" mean?

• It loves the dark

• It wears glasses

• It can't see well

• It sleeps upside down

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True or False: These two sentences are metaphors?

You are fire

You are a cheetah

• True

• False

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True or False A simile COMPARES 2 things using the words like or as?

• True

• False

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True or False: Ben is as tall as a giraffe is a metaphor?

• True

• False

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True or False:

She was as quick as a cheetah.

Is a Simile

• True

• False

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True or False:

A metaphor compares you to something by using the word like?

• True

• False

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