Similes and Metaphors

What is an example of a metaphor?

• Her hair was as yellow as the sun.

• His hands were as cold as ice.

• Fourth-grade has the heart of a lion.

• The house was like a circus!

My brother was boiling mad.

• simile

• metaphor

What is the definition of a simile?

• Don't know, don't care

• Comparing two things using HAVE and WHAT

• Comparing two things using BUT and WHO

• Comparing two things using LIKE and AS

What is the definition of a metaphor?

• Comparing two things using like or as.

• Comparing two different things NOT using like or as.

• Silly sentences using animals and people.

• Things that have people like characteristics.

The snow was as white as a cloud.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• fluffy

What is the meaning of the following simile?
"as hungry as a bear recently awakened from hibernation"

• Someone is really hungry

• Someone is slightly sleepy

• Someone is extremely sleepy.

• Someone is slightly hungry. 

A metaphor compares two things NOT using the words...

• have and of

• like and as

• to have and to hold

• simile

You were brave as a lion.

• simile

• metaphor

He is a shining star.

• simile

• metaphor

The class was a zoo.

• simile

• metaphor