Metaphors and Similes

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Metaphors and Similes
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Playing with Words

• Believe it or not, you use metaphors and similes
  every day of your life! Some words are metaphors
  all by themselves.
• She was a bright student.
• We all know that bright refers to light. But in
  this sentence we are comparing intelligence to
  light. Its a metaphor!

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Metaphor

• A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is
  applied to something to which it is not literally
  applicable in order to suggest a resemblance

In one of their movies Cheech and Chong say they
are flying but they not actually flying it is
the state of their altered minds.
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You are a pig
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You are a beast
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You are a fox
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Metaphors.

• The crowd was an angry beast.
• She was the sunshine.
• He was a tornado of activity
• Silence is golden
• My memory is foggy.
• Brian was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball back
  over the net.

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Mixed Metaphor

• The use in the same expression of two or more
  metaphors that are incongruous or illogical when
  combined.
• The batter scored the winning touchdown when he
  it the homerun at the buzzer.

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Dead Metaphor

• A metaphor that has occurred so often that it has
  become trite or even a cliché.

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Simile

• While a metaphor directly states that something
  is something else, a simile compares things
  using as or like

He was as quick as a rabbit!
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Quick as a Wink

• Many cliché's are similes. They are fun to use,
  but dont overuse them in your writing!
• Even if you are busy as a beaver, its not as
  cute as a button or as American as apple pie to
  overuse clichés. It should be as plain as the
  nose on your face!

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Simile from The Scarlet Letter

• Hester Prynne is described.
• "Her face, so long familiar to the townspeople,
  showed the marble quietude which they were
  accustomed to behold there. It was like a mask
  or rather, like the frozen calmness of a dead
  womans features "

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Sing like a bird!

• Many popular songs use similes and metaphors. Can
  you think of some examples?

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Song Similes

• ...like two sparrows in a hurricane
• as cold as ice
• ...like a rolling stone
• ...whose fleece was white as snow
• ...like a bird up in the sky
• like a bird in a cage

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Annies Song by John Denver

• You fill up my senses like a night in the forest
  like the mountains in springtime, like a walk
  in the rain like a storm in the desert, like a
  sleepy blue ocean you fill up my senses, come
  fill me again.

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