Similes & Metaphors By: Haley Goodwin

Standards ELACC4L5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. a) Explain the meaning of simple similes and metaphors (e.g. as pretty as a picture) in content.

Objective & Essential Question Objective: The students will be able to identify a simile and metaphor within content. Essential Question: What is a simile and a metaphor?

Similes & Metaphors Raise your hand if you have heard the word – simile. Raise your hand if you have heard the word – metaphor. Now does anyone have an idea what these words are?

Similes A comparison of two things by using the words “like” or “as”. Try This: Use similes to add word pictures to your poems, stories, and descriptive writing. Example: “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.” – Forrest Gump http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJh59vZ8ccc

Examples The girls fight like cats and dogs. My mom is sweet as sugar. This dress is perfect because it fits like a glove. They are as different as day and night. Taylor looked at the test with a stare as blank as his notebook. The boys eat like pigs.

Metaphors A comparison of two different things without using the word “like” or “as”. Try This: Think of two things that have some similarity, maybe their size, shape, color, etc. Compare the two things without using the words like or as. Example: “You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FafLnokzeNo

Examples The sweet girl’s home was a prison. My father is a rock. The spaghetti was a tangled ball of yarn on the plate. His job hunt was a puzzle that was missing the final piece. The lava was a blanket of fire that scorched everything in it’s path.

Practice Directions: When called identify if the sentence is a simile or a metaphor, then you need to identify the two things being compared. Black as words on printed pages. My brother is a dragon. Fun like writing style. Long as thread unrolled from spools. My mom is a teddy bear. Quiet at a school at night. We are a busy family with many things to do. White like dunes of sand on beaches. My friend Joey is a clown. The lawyers were the sharks of the ocean in the courtroom.

Summary A simile is a comparison using the words “like” and/or “as”. A metaphor is a comparison of two unlike things without using the words like or as. Any questions?

References Writer’s Express http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-similes.html http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/figures-similes-list.htm http://examples.yourdictionary.com/metaphor-examples.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJh59vZ8ccc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FafLnokzeNo

Ticket Out the Door like everyone to take out a piece of paper. I would like every student to write two similes and two metaphors. The similes and metaphors should compare you to anything. You will use this tomorrow for a narrative. Ready Go!