Interpret Similes and Metaphors

Her cheeks are red like a rose.

• simile

• metaphor

• H

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

Your eyes shine like diamonds.

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

I am as happy as a pig in mud.

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

Sam is a chicken.

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

The computers at school are old dinosaurs.

• metaphor

• simile

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

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?

• Simile

• Metaphor

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

The baby girl’s smile was the sun on dark days. 
What does the metaphor mean above?

• The baby girl's smile made other people happy.

• When the baby girl smiled the sun would rise. 

• The baby never smiled. 

• The baby girl's smile made the moon come out. 

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

When two unlike things are being compared using like or as, it is called a

• simile

• hyperbole

• idiom

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.RI.3.4

A comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as' is:

• alliteration

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.RI.5.4

What two things are being compared in this this sentence?

• friends to peas

• friends to pods

• peas to pods

• best to friends

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B