1. Similes

2. What is a simile? An explicit comparison that uses the words like or as A comparison between two things that are unlike, but the author wishes to make a correlation between them

3. Purpose of a simile To make an image or feeling clear in the reader’s mind To show similarity To make the unfamiliar familiar To illustrate with examples

4. Examples of simile Her hair is as red as a flame. The grass grew like a weed. Her arms spread like an eagle’s wings. Tomorrow is as near to us as Mars. Martha’s pillows appeared as marshmallows in her newly decorated bedroom.

5. Where are similes? O, my Luve's like a red, red rose – Robert Burns’s “A Red, Red Rose” Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore – Edgar Allan Poe’s “To Helen” O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night, Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear – Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet