Metaphors and Similes

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• Metaphors and Similes

• Brought to you by Professor Pen, author of Power
  Writing

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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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More metaphors.

• The crowd was an angry beast.
• She was the sunshine.
• He was a tornado of activity
• Silence is golden
• My memory is foggy.

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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

• Lots of cliches 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 cliches. It should be as plain as the
  nose on your face!

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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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Try Your Own!

• Heres a fun activity!
• Re-write your favorite fairy tale using similes
  and metaphors to make the story more interesting.
  Use at least 5 different similes and metaphors.
• Remember a simile uses like or as, a metaphor
  doesnt.
• She is a pig (metaphor)
• She eats like a pig (simile)

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