Similes

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Similes Metaphors
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• Figurative language is used when a writer
  describes something using comparisons that go
  beyond literal meaning. The words mean more than
  what they say on the surface. This gives the
  writing a fresh look at a common subject.
  Figurative language is not meant to be
  interpreted in a word by word sense. The objects
  that are being compared are different in enough
  ways so that their similarities, when pointed
  out, are interesting, unique and/or surprising.
  Figurative language is used in poetry and
  fiction, as well as in everyday speech.

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Similes 

• A simile is a comparison between two unlike
  things that have something in common. A simile
  always uses the words like or as to make a
  comparison.

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Similes 

• Examples
• It's been a hard day's night, and I've been
  working like a dog. - The Beatles
• My heart is like an open highway. - Jon Bon Jovi
• like two peas in a pod
• like Christmas in summer
• snow was like a blanket
• my love is like a red, red rose
• deer ran like the wind

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Similes

• More Examples
• as hungry as a bear
• as nutty as a fruitcake
• as quick as lightning
• as slippery as an eel
• as solid as a rock
• as stubborn as a mule
• as sturdy as an oak

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Metaphors

• A metaphor is a figure of speech comparing two
  unlike things that have something in common. The
  comparison is made without the use of like or as.

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Metaphors

• Examples
• Patty was a raging tiger when she lost her lunch
  money.
• During the night the forest was a dark,
  frightening battlefield.
• A heart of stone (from Rebecca)
• He has the heart of a lion.
• You are the sun in my sky.
• You are the light in my life.
• She is my East and my West, my compass.

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Metaphors

• More Examples
• Life is a mere dream, a fleeting shadow on a
  cloudy day.
• Love is a lemon - either bitter of sweet. (from
  Scott)
• Drowning in the sea
• Jumping for joy
• Rolling in dough
• Apple of my eye
• It is raining cats and dogs.
• Love is a fragile flower opening to the warmth of
  spring.

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Brain Pop

• http//www.brainpop.com/english/writing/similesand
  metaphors/

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Simile or Metaphor

• Stanley Yelnats was as nervous as a cat with a
  long tail in a room full of rocking chairs as he
  rode the bus to Camp Green Lake.

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Simile
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Simile or Metaphor

• Zero was a mole as he dug his five-foot deep hole.

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Metaphor
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Simile or Metaphor

• X-Ray was misnamed for he was really as blind as
  a bat.

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Simile
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Simile or Metaphor

• Squid was a wounded animal on the inside even
  though he taunted Stanley about receiving letters
  from, and writing to, his mother.

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Metaphor
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Simile or Metaphor

• Magnets fingers were sticky jam as he stole Mr.
  Sir's sunflower seeds.

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Metaphor
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Simile or Metaphor

• Caveman smelled like a skunk after days of not
  bathing.

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Simile
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Simile or Metaphor

• Zigzag had a heart of stone when he would not
  apologize to Stanley after hitting him in the
  head with a shovel.

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Metaphor
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Simile or Metaphor

• The Warden's nails were deadly weapons after she
  painted them with rattlesnake venom.

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Metaphor
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Simile or Metaphor

• Kate Barlow was as gentle as a lamb, while
  Kissin' Kate was as tough as nails.

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Simile
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Practice

• Number your paper from 1 to 10. For each of the
  following determine if the sentence contains a
  simile or metaphor. Write your answer on your
  paper.

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Simile or Metaphor

• 1. Sam's medicinal remedies made from onions
  were pure gold to the people of Green Lake.

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Simile or Metaphor

• 2. Charles Walker thought he was a tycoon since
  his family was the richest in Green Lake.

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Simile or Metaphor

• 3. Elya Yelnats' luck was poisoned meat that he
  passed down for generations to his family.

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Simile or Metaphor

• 4. Madame Zeroni's rage was a curse after Elya
  broke his promise to carry her to the top of a
  mountain.

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Simile or Metaphor

• 5. Stanley Yelnats I was as happy as a rat with
  a gold tooth when he reached the summit of top of
  the thumb shaped mountain.

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Simile or Metaphor

• 6. Mr. Sir was meaner than Oscar the Grouch when
  he had to replace smoking with eating sunflower
  seeds.

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Simile or Metaphor

• 7. Mr. Pendanski's mean streak was as sure as
  death and taxes.

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Simile or Metaphor

• 8. Clyde Livingston's foot odor was as deadly as
  a revolver.

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Simile or Metaphor

• 9. Derrick Dunne was as mean as a bull
  approaching a matador.

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Simile or Metaphor

• 10. Mrs. Yelnats was as worried as a surrounded
  bank robber.

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More Practice

• Go to page 36 in your student packet for Holes.
  Complete the written practice.
• Write simile or metaphor to show which poetic
  device is being used in each item.
• Then return to this PowerPoint.

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Listen to the song "Longer" by Dan Fogelberg. Can
you find any similes or metaphors in this song?
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"Longer" by Dan Fogelberg.
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• On the next slide you will see that U2 sang a
  similar song in the late 80s.
• Does the song use metaphors or similes?

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Listen to Hawkmoon 269 by U2. Highlight
similes in yellow and  metaphors in green.
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Listen to The River by Garth Brooks. Highlight
similes in yellow and  metaphors in green.
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The River by Garth Brooks. similes in yellow -
metaphors in green
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Listen to Daniel Boone Theme Song. Highlight
similes in yellow and  metaphors in green.
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Listen to Daniel Boone Theme Song. Highlight
similes in yellow and  metaphors in green.
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Listen to It's Not Easy Being Green. Highlight
similes in yellow and metaphors in green.
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Listen to It's Not Easy Being Green. similes
yellow - metaphors green
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Listen to Like a Rock by Bob Seger. Highlight
similes in yellow and  metaphors in green.
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Like a Rock by Bob Seger. similes in yellow -
metaphors in green
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Listen to The Way You Do the Things You Do by
The Temptations. Highlight similes in yellow and 
metaphors in green.
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The Way You Do the Things You Do by The
Temptations similes yellow -  metaphors green
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Listen to Im Already There by Lonestar.
Highlight similes in yellow and  metaphors in
green.
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Im Already There by Lonestarsimiles yellow - 
metaphors in green
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Listen to The Rose by Lee Ann Rimes. Highlight
similes in yellow and  metaphors in green.
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The Rose by Lee Ann Rimessimiles yellow - 
metaphors green