Similes and Metaphors

Fruit is fuel for a healthy body. 

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration 

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

• Lotion and Sylvia's face.

• Sylvia and her face.

• Sylvia and smooth. 

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

• Sylvia's face was really rough.

• Sylvia's face was really smooth. 

• Sylvia's face was oily. 

• Sylvia's face was really dry. 

What two things are being compared in the following metaphor?
The crab was a dancing pair of scissors, clicking across the sand. 

• Crab and Sand

• Crab and dancing scissors

• Scissors and sand

• Dancing and sand. 

My grandma is as sweet as sugar.

• she is very nice

• she wears sweet perfume

• she likes to bake sweets

• she loves CHOCOLATE!

Her tears shone in the night like the lights of the station wagon

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Neither

A figure of speech that compares two things that are alike in some way using “like” or “as.”

• simile

• metaphor

The city is a sea of sadness.

• simile

• metaphor

Toa is as brave as a strong chicken

• Metaphor

• Simile

He exhaled slowly, each breath as ragged as a bumpy brick road

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Neither