Identifying and Using Metaphors

How can similes and metaphors enhance writing?

• By making the writing more straightforward.

• By making the writing more boring.

• By making the writing more confusing.

• By engaging readers in a more imaginative and expressive way.

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What is a learning objective related to similes and metaphors?

• Practice identifying similes and metaphors in texts

• Explain the characteristics of metaphors

• Identify metaphors

• Recognize examples of metaphors

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What is the purpose of using similes and metaphors in writing?

• To make the writing more straightforward.

• To confuse the reader.

• To make the writing more boring.

• To create vivid descriptions and convey deeper meanings.

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What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

• A simile directly states that one thing is another, while a metaphor compares two things using connecting words like 'like' or 'as'.

• A simile and a metaphor are the same thing.

• A simile compares two things using connecting words like 'like' or 'as', while a metaphor directly states that one thing is another.

• A simile and a metaphor are both used to describe emotions.

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Figures of speech: The metaphor:

• when an image is created by referring to something as something else, for example: You`re a star

• compares something to something else using like or as, for example: As big as a house

• exaggeration for efect, for example: I`ve told you a thousand times.

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Figurative language:

• means actual, describes something as it actually is. For example: The grass is green.

• uses similes, metaphors, hyperbole and personification to describe something, often by comparing it with something else

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is being compared to the following metaphor?

Spring is my friend Sarah, happy and full of promise.

• Sarah

• promise

• friend

• spring

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is being compared to the following metaphor?

With six inches of snow, the park is a winter wonderland.

• snow

• inches

• park

• wonderland

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What is being compared to the following metaphor?

Icicles are jagged swords dangling from the eaves.

• icicles

• swords

• eaves

• jagged

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What is being compared to the following metaphor?

Fresh snow is frosting spread thick over mountaintops.

• spread thick

• mountaintops

• frosting

• fresh snow

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