Similes & Metaphors

What is a metaphor?

Answer - A figure of speech that individuals use to compare things that are not alike but do have one or more similarities.

What is a simile?

Answer - A simile is a phrase that uses a comparison to describe that contains 'like' or 'as'.

Q.

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?

a) Simile

b) Metaphors

• a) Simile

• b) Metaphor

When my grandfather drives, he is as slow as a turtle.

• a) Sings while driving.

• b) Fast

• c) Very slow

• d) He is old.

He is a night owl because he stays up late.

• a) Simile

• b) Metaphor

• c) Neither

My mother is as _____as sugar.

This cricket ball is as hard as a _____.

Simile is the formation of a word from a sound associated with what it's named?

True or False ..

• True

• False

Simile is the formation of a word from a sound associated with what it is named.

True or False

• True

• False

A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

True or False

• True

• False