Similes and Metaphors

The snow is a white blanket.

• simile

• metaphor

Sam is a chicken.

• simile

• metaphor

My teacher is a dragon.

• metaphor

• simile

When two unlike things are being compared using like or as, it is called a

• simile

• hyperbole

• idiom

• metaphor

The best friends had so much in common they were like two peas in a pod. 
What are the words in blue an example of?

• Simile

• Metaphor

Which of the following is a simile?

• I looked up as I heard a bird above my head.

• The mom was as excited as a kid on Christmas morning.

• Jenny likes to go swimming in the river.

• Kendal was a fish in the water.

A comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as' is:

• alliteration

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

What two things are being compared in this this sentence?

• friends to peas

• friends to pods

• peas to pods

• best to friends

The baby girl’s smile was the sun on dark days. 
What does the metaphor mean above?

• The baby girl's smile made other people happy.

• When the baby girl smiled the sun would rise. 

• The baby never smiled. 

• The baby girl's smile made the moon come out. 

What two things are being compared in the metaphor:

"Her tears were rivers flowing down her cheeks."

• her and cheeks

• tears and rivers

• rivers and flowing

• rivers and cheeks