Similes & Metaphors

By: Haley Goodwin

Standards • ELACC4L5: Demonstrate understanding

of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

a) Explain the meaning of simple similes and metaphors (e.g. as pretty as a picture) in content.

Objective & Essential Question

• Objective: The students will be able to identify a simile and metaphor within content.

• Essential Question: What is a simile and a metaphor?

Similes & Metaphors

• Raise your hand if you have heard the word – simile.

• Raise your hand if you have heard the word – metaphor.

• Now does anyone have an idea what these words are?

Similes• A comparison of two things by using the

words “like” or “as”. • Try This: Use similes to add word pictures

to your poems, stories, and descriptive writing.

• Example: “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.” – Forrest Gump

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJh59vZ8ccc

Examples • The girls fight like cats and dogs. • My mom is sweet as sugar. • This dress is perfect because it fits like a

glove. • They are as different as day and night. • Taylor looked at the test with a stare as

blank as his notebook. • The boys eat like pigs.

Metaphors • A comparison of two different things

without using the word “like” or “as”. • Try This: Think of two things that have

some similarity, maybe their size, shape, color, etc. Compare the two things without using the words like or as.

• Example: “You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.”

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FafLnokzeNo

Examples• The sweet girl’s home was a prison. • My father is a rock. • The spaghetti was a tangled ball of yarn

on the plate. • His job hunt was a puzzle that was

missing the final piece. • The lava was a blanket of fire that

scorched everything in it’s path.

PracticeDirections: When called identify if the sentence is a simile or a metaphor, then you need to identify the two things being compared. • Black as words on printed pages. • My brother is a dragon. • Fun like writing style. • Long as thread unrolled from spools. • My mom is a teddy bear. • Quiet at a school at night. • We are a busy family with many things to do. • White like dunes of sand on beaches. • My friend Joey is a clown. • The lawyers were the sharks of the ocean in the courtroom.

Summary • A simile is a comparison using

the words “like” and/or “as”. • A metaphor is a comparison of

two unlike things without using the words like or as.

• Any questions?

References • Writer’s Express• http://

examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-similes.html • http://

www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/figures-similes-list.htm• http://

examples.yourdictionary.com/metaphor-examples.html• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJh59vZ8ccc • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FafLnokzeNo

Ticket Out the Door

• like everyone to take out a piece of paper. I would like every student to write two similes and two metaphors. The similes and metaphors should compare you to anything. You will use this tomorrow for a narrative. Ready Go!