Similes & Metaphors

Match the figurative language with the defintion:

• Compare unlike things using like/as

• Imagery

• Create a picture in the reader's mind

• Simile

• Compare unlike things without like/as

• Metaphor

In the school play, Freddy roared like a lion.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

Her love is a blanket.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

Her skin was white as snow.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

The library was an ocean of books.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

That girl is as tough as nails.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

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.

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!

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.

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.