Metaphors

What is Ben being compared to?

What words are NOT used in a metaphor (choose 2)

• like

• as

• lovely

• ask

Ben was like a cheetah at the race today is a ____________.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

the snow is being compared to a _____________

• blanket

• white

• snow

• ground

what picture does the metaphor create in your mind?

• just like a blanket lays over something, the snow was laying over the ground

• A blanket is always white

• A blanket is made of many colors

• You put a blanket on a bed and it makes you sleepy

Are you enjoying the video lesson?

• Yes

• No

_____________ are a creative way to compare 2 things without using the words like or as.

• Metaphors

• Similes

• Personification

• Hyperbole

If "I am a block of ice" is NOT a metaphor (since the guy was frozen in a block of ice)...what type of language would that be?

• figurative

• literal

• personified

• alliterated