Figurative Langauge - Similies and Metaphors

Similes are where you compare two unlike things using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’

e.g He ran like the wind. She was as strong as a lion.

Metaphors are where you compare two unlike things using by saying something is something else. 

e.g He is a stonewall, unbreakable by force. The rain is glass shattering against the street.

Use a word from the box to complete each simile

1. The cloth was as black as coal
2. The wet ball was as slippery as an eel
3. My little sister is as playful as a kitten
4. The top of this table is as smooth as silk
5. I’ve been as busy as a bee
6. The lamb is as white as snow

Copy these sentences onto your blog and highlight the simile in each:

1. My bedroom was as black as a cave in the depths of the earth.
2. The classroom after school became as noisy as a gaggle of gabby geese.
3. The cat capered along the fence top like a tightrope walker on the hire wire. 
4. My anger crashed into me like waves against the shore.

For each of these sentences is it a simile or a metaphor?

1. As slippery as an eel. similie
2. Arnie was a man-mountain. metaphor
3. He was a lion in battle.  metaphor
4. She is as pretty as a picture. similie
5. The striker was a goal machine.  metaphor
6. The torch lit up the room as if the sun had already risen early. similie
7. The moon was a misty shadow. metaphor
8. My friend has a face like thunder.  metaphor

Dylan is as high as a kite

Natasha is as smart as Wikipedia

Jaime is as cool as an ice cube