All Summer in a Day Metaphors and Similes

1. “The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds intermixed.”

• Metaphor

• Simile

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2. “They were remembering gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to build the world with.”

• Metaphor

• Simile

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3. “They always awoke to the tatting drum, the endless shaking of clear bead necklaces upon the roof.”

• Metaphor

• Simile

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4. “They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all fumbling spokes.”

• Metaphor

• Simile

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5. “She was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away and if she spoke at all her voice would be a ghost.”

• Metaphor

• Simile

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6. “It’s like a penny.”

• Metaphor

• Simile

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7. “The great jungle that covered Venus, that grew and never stopped growing, tumultuously, even as you watched it. It was a nest of octopi, clustering up great arms of flesh-like weed, wavering, flowering in this brief spring.”

• Metaphor

• Simile

On a scale of 1-5, how well comfortable are you with metaphors and similes?

• 1- I don't understand the difference.

• 3- I am somewhat comfortable.

• 5- This is very easy for me.

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Exit Task: What two words do similes always have?

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