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WorksheetsFigurative Language
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is a simile?
compares 2 unlike things using like or as
states that something is something else
an exaggeration
giving a nonhuman object human like characteristics
What is a metaphor?
An exaggerated statement
a phrase that repeats itself
compares 2 unlike things using like or as
compares 2 unlike things not using like or as
Which is not a simile?
I like ice cream on a hot, sunny day.
She is like a bull in a china store.
It smells like garbage.
Like Zeus, he was all powerful.
What human characteristic is being given?
What is being personified?
The road went off into the distance as straight as ____?
A bowling ball
A cyclone
A figure eight
An arrow
Check all responses that ARE similes.
Watching this movie is like watching grass grow.
Those kids are fighting like cats and dogs.
I like to eat steak and potatoes.
He should have threw it away as he walked by the trash can.
He is as fast as a cheetah.
Which of the following could be added to the phrase, "My cat is black" to form a simile?
And furry
All over
In color
As ink
My life is a dream of wonders
idiom
personification
simile
metaphor
