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SIMILES

SIMILES AND
METAPHORS

A simile is a language technique that compares one

thing to another. To make this comparison, a simile
uses the words like or as, for example:
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Writers use similes and metaphors to

make comparisons, to explain things,
to express emotion and to make their
writing more vivid and entertaining.

METAPHORS
A metaphor is a language technique that creates an
image by comparison. To do this, a metaphor says
that one thing is another different thing, for
example:
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She is the apple of my eye

The world is a stage
The snow is a white blanket

As busy as a bee
As pale as death
Like a moth to the flame
Life is like a box of chocolates

FIREWORK BY KATY PERRY

Similes

Metaphors

Do you ever feel like a plastic

bag?

Do you ever feel so paper

thin?

Like a house of cards, one

blow from caving in.

Theres a spark in you.

Baby, youre a firework.

Just own the night like the 4th

of July.
You dont have to feel like a
waste of space
Like a lightning bolt, your heart
will glow

CANDLE IN THE WIND BY ELTON

JOHN

SIMILES IN POETRY
Cats

Bushfire

Eyes like emeralds

Beautiful as jewels
Claws like hooks
Prowling for the kill
Cats

Roaring like a lion

Racing like a cheetah
Hot as the sun
Crackling and blazing
Bushfire

Elton John sings that Marilyn Monroe was like a

candle in the wind. I think that this simile means...

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METAPHORS IN POETRY
The Sea
The sea is a hungry dog
Giant and grey
He rolls on the beach all day
With his clashing teeth and shaggy jaws
Hour upon hour he gnaws
The rumbling, tumbling stones
And Bones, bones, bones, bones!
The giant sea-dog moans
Licking his greasy paws

But on quiet days in May or June

When even the grasses on the dune
Play no more their reedy tune
With his head between his paws
He lies on the sandy shores
So quiet, so quiet, he scarcely snores
By James Reeves

And when the night wind roars

And the moon rocks in the stormy cloud
He bounds to his feet and snuffs and sniffs
Shaking his wet sides over the cliffs
And howls and hollos long and loud