simile and metaphor

Module 6 W3 Simile and Metaphor

By JESSICA JACKSON

Simile and Metaphor

​What are they?

Authors describe places or events so that readers can create pictures in their minds. The pictures or images help a reader to better understand a text. Often descriptions compare one thing to something else that readers are familiar with. Similes and metaphors are kinds of comparisons.

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Which one is a simile?

• stood like a statue

• wrapped in a blanket of sunshine

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Which example is a metaphor?

• as hot as a furnace

• slithering snakes of seaweed

What does the simile or metaphor reveal about a topic in the text?

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Read page 59 in Grand Canyon

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Which detail is a simile?

• worn down by weathering and erosion.

• Coyotes teach their pups to hunt for food in thick forests along the edges of the Canyon.

• Dawn comes, bringing daylight to spires and buttes standing like sentries on the plateau,

• Thousands of visitors from all over the world have come to view the splendor of the Grand Canyon.

What does the simile tell the reader about the spires and buttes?

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Read page 61 in Grand Canyon

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The author uses a simile when writing about the side canyons. Identify the simile.

• Canyon visitors along the trail peer with curiosity at symbols of people

• As the sun moves higher in the sky

• smaller side canyons with rocks layered like multicolored ribbons come into view.

• Wildflowers stand around them in patches of purple and pink.

Explain what the simile tells readers about the the canyon side walls. Use details from the poem to support your answer.

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What does this metaphor mean? The flame tree's crimson petals covered the ground. We walked along the carpet of petals.

• They are walking over the petals as if it were a carpet

• The petals turned into a carpet

• There was a carpet made from the tree

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Richard Bigtree was broad and built like a bear. He was as tall as a pine tree.

• Simile

• Metaphor

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What does this comparison mean? Richard Bigtree was broad and built like a bear. He was as tall as a pine tree.

• Richard Bigtree is strong, tall, and muscled.

• Richard Bigtree is a bear.

• Richard Bigtree looks exactly like a bear.

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I felt like a butterfly when Mama tied the beautiful bow on my dress.

• Simile

• Metaphor

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What does this comparison mean? I felt like a butterfly when Mama tied the beautiful bow on my dress.

• The narrator feels beautiful, like a butterfly.

• The narrator has wings.

• The narrator's mother calls her a butterfly.

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You are grinning like a raccoon!

• Simile

• Metaphor

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What does this comparison mean? You are grinning like a raccoon!

• They have a big, possibly sneaky, smile.

• They have very sharp teeth.

• They may have rabies.

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My heart was a hot air balloon, soaring in the sky!

• Simile

• Metaphor

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What does the metaphor mean? My heart was a hot air balloon, soaring in the sky!

• The narrator was happy.

• The narrator was flying.

• The narrator was riding in a hot air balloon.