Figurative Language: Simile or Metaphor and Its Understanding

Similes and metaphors are figures of speech.

• Yes, both similes and metaphors are figures of speech.

• Neither are figures of speech.

• Only similes are figures of speech.

• Only metaphors are figures of speech.

What words do similes use to compare two, unlike things?

• like, is

• like, as

• as, is

• like, are

"See the red thing that looks like an intertube" What figure of speech does this sentence use?

• metaphor

• simile

In this passage from the Circulatory Story, what two things are being compared?

"See the red thing that looks like an inner tube without a whole?"

• red blood cells and circles

• red blood cells and a river

• red blood cells and an intertube with no whole

• a thing and an inner tube

"You might think of the heart as a divided highway."

Which type of figurative language is this sentence using?

• metaphor

• figurative

• simile

How do you know this statement contains a simile?

"You might think of the heart as a divided highway?"

• It's a long sentence.

• It uses the word as to compare the heart to a divided highway.

• It is found in the book, The Circulatory Story.

"Each side has an upstairs room and a downstairs room, and each side's upstairs and downstairs are connected."

What type of figurative language is being used?

• simile

• metaphor

What two things are being compared on page 10 of the Circulatory Story.

• the upstairs and downstairs of a house

• the heart and stairs

• the chambers of the heart to the upstairs and downstairs of a house.

• stairs to rooms

How does figurative language help you understand what you are reading?

• Figurative language is funny

• Figurative language is easy to read.

• Figurative language compares something I may not know to something that I am more familiar to me.

• Figurative language doesn't help at all.

Which sentence below is using a simile?

• If all the blood vessels in the human body were lined up end to end, you'd have to travel about sixty thousand miles.

• The left ventricle is a mega-muscular chamber.

• If you look up, you'll see that you just went through the mitral valve.

• Like most pumps, the heart can function with slightly leaky valves.