Simile and Metaphor

Simile or Metaphor?
The assignment was a breeze.

• simile

• metaphor

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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. 

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What is the meaning of the following Simile?
Sylvia's new lotion made her face as smooth as a baby's booty.

• Sylvia's face was really rough.

• Sylvia's face was really smooth. 

• Sylvia's face was oily. 

• Sylvia's face was really dry. 

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Identify the simile.

• The busy store is a beehive.

• He was a broken record.

• The hurricane was a monster.

• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

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The moon was a ghostly pirate ship tossed upon cloudy seas

• metaphor

• simile

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Your voice feels like nails on a chalkboard

• simile

• metaphor

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The leaves are little yellow fish swimming in the river.

• simile

• metaphor

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Fame is a bee.  It has a name. It has a song

• simile

• metaphor

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My words are little jars for you to take and put on the shelf

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

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Words are falling, like dew, upon a thousand thoughts

• simile

• metaphore

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