1. Similes & Metaphors
By: Haley Goodwin

2. 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.

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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.”

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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?

11. References Writer’s Express

12. 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!