2. Figurative Language Jennifer Parnell North Belmont Elementary Adapted for AWE by Faye Wheeler Used in Compliance with Fair Use Copyright Law

3. Examples: SimilesSimiles MetaphorsMetaphors

4. Similes are sentences that compare two unlike objects using like or as. –The girl’s hair is as yellow as the sun. –The boy runs like a rabbit.

5. Metaphors are sentences that use one idea or thing in place of another to show a likeness between the two. –That report was dynamite! –The boy is a brain.

6. Can you name each type of figurative language?

7. The Christmas tree was a jewel in the forest.

8. metaphor

9. Granddaddy was sleeping as soundly as a bear in hibernation.

10. simile

11. The boy can swim like a fish.

12. simile

13. The lady was a songbird.

14. metaphor

15. The old lady was moving like a snail.

16. simile

17. Steve was a leaping frog as he jumped the brook.

18. metaphor