Similes & Metaphors

Match the figurative language with the defintion:

• Compare unlike things using like/as

• Metaphor

• Create a picture in the reader's mind

• Imagery

• Compare unlike things without like/as

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

In the school play, Freddy roared like a lion.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Her love is a blanket.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Her skin was white as snow.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The library was an ocean of books.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

That girl is as tough as nails.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which of the following sentences contains a simile?

• The thunder was loud.

• The thunder growled, and the windows shook.

• The thunder boomed and rumbled.

• The thunder growled like a group of grizzly bears.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which of the following sentences contains a simile?

• The tree danced in the wind.

• 
  That cat is the devil.

• She is as tall as a tree!

• My backpack weighs a thousand tons!

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which of the following sentences contains a metaphor?

• 
  The boy was upset at himself.

• The boy said he’d die of shame.

• The boy was a tornado of emotion.

• The boy did not like what he’d done.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What two things are being compared in the following simile?
Sylvia's new lotion made her face as smooth as baby skin. 

• 
  Sylvia's face and baby's skin

• Sylvia and her face.

• Lotion and Sylvia's face.

• 
  Sylvia and smooth. 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D