1. Similes and Metaphors
ELAGSE7L5. Determine the appropriate meaning of figurative words and phrases (e.g., idiom, metaphor, simile, personification, pun) in passages.

2. Imagery Devices Purpose is to create an IMAGE in the reader’s mind.
1. Simile
2. Metaphor 2

3. Which picture best describes you?
Baseball
Wave
Eagle
Highway
Drum
Decide which picture best describes you and complete the sentence: I am a ________ because…. ( fill in the blank with one of the objects from the pictures)
Example: I am an eagle because….

4. 1. Simile
A comparison of two things (that may or may not be alike) using the words like or as. 4

5. Examples of Simile “The River” by Garth Brooks
A dream is like a river / Ever changing as it flows
Which two things are being compared?
Dream and river using the word “like” 5

6. Examples of a Simile Bob is hungry as a wolf.
Bob and wolf are the two things being compared, using “as”
Sue smells like a rose.
Sue & rose are the two things being compared, using “like” 6

7. A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as.
2. Metaphor
A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as. 7

8. Examples of a Metaphor Bob is a hungry wolf.
Bob is compared to a wolf.
Sue is a rose, filling the room with her sweet scent.
Sue (or Sue’s scent) and rose are being compared. 8

9. Trickier Example in “The River”
Which two things are being compared using a simile?
I (the speaker) and bird using “like”
Re-wording the sentence helps to see the simile:
I sail these waters like a bird flies through the sky.
And I will sail my vessel / ‘Til the river runs dry / Like a bird upon the wind / These waters are my sky 9

10. Make a T-Chart Similes and Metaphors Which one? Dream is like a river
Dreamer’s just a vessel
I am like a bird upon the wind
Waters are my sky
Good Lord as my captain
Which one?

11. What did we learn today?
ELAGSE7L5. Determine the appropriate meaning of figurative words and phrases (e.g., idiom, metaphor, simile, personification, pun) in passages.

12. Color Poem Examples Green Makes me think of new Spring.
Like a tree covered in leaves
In a wooded forest.
Blue
Reminds me of warm summer skies
It is a wave of emotion
Under the sparkling sea.

13. Color Poem Formula Line 1—Pick a color
Line 2—describe something associated with the color
Line 3—simile or metaphor
Line 4—prepositional phrase telling where

14. Similes and Metaphors Turn the following into similes:
The sky was blue
That homework was hard
Turn the following into metaphors:
Eddie eats a lot
My room is dirty

15. Maya Angelou
“Still I Rise”
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16. Make a T-Chart Similes and Metaphors Meaning
But still, like dust, I’ll rise
I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Like moons and like suns
Like hopes springing high
Shoulders falling down like teardrops
I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
I’m a black ocean
I am the dream and the hope of the slave
Meaning

17. What did we learn today?
ELAGSE7L5. Determine the appropriate meaning of figurative words and phrases (e.g., idiom, metaphor, simile, personification, pun) in passages.