“A cloud of bubbles swirled around him,

clinging to his skin like pearls”

What two things is he comparing?

Bubbles and pearls.
How are they similar?
Bubbles sometimes look similar to pearls especially
in water. He is implying that the water is clear and
GORGEOUS.
What do they make us think of?
How he is in water and why are there so many
bubbles? Is there some kind of creature.
 Find the similes in the story and complete the table

Sunlight caught the window of Window of the Little fire, Mr Winton compares the window of
the shack… so each pane of shack – Square, his shack when the sunlight is hitting
glass looked like a little fire. Bright, hot, it to, a little fire was inside.
clear, no colour
Blueback’s armoured Dizziest blue, dark The author compares Blueback’s
All it’s armoured scales…
scales to the dizziest blue implying
looked like the dizziest blue. scales, scaly, slimy, blue, sky, sea, ocean.
yucky. Blueback is moving very fast.
The author compares Blueback’s eye
An eye the size of a golf bal. An eye of blueback. Golf ball,
to the size of a gold ball. Implying the
Round, spherical. Round, big. eye of Blueback is very big and scary.