Christmas Simile and Metaphor Task Cards

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Chr Simile & Metaphor Chr Simile & Metaphor
Task Card #1 Task Card #2
At night, the The falling icicle

Christmas lights cut like a dagger
were bright as day. through the snow.
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Ch Simile & Metaphor Ch Simile & Metaphor
The sun was a stove, The bright

melting the ice from ornament was as
the roads. round and red as
Rudolph’s nose.
The deals on Christmas

The tree was gifts were a steal.
a statue of
ornaments.
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Chr Simile & Metaphor Ch r Simile & Metaphor
Mom was as giddy as a kid on Santa was as

Christmas when she opened
her new vacuum cleaner. quiet as a mouse
as he slid down
the chimney.
The boy was like a

The snow was a lawyer trying to
white blanket over convince his mom that
the brown grass. he hadn’t thrown a
snowball at his brother.
After a busy Christmas In the days leading up

day, Anna slept like a log. to Christmas, mom
was a busy bee,
shopping, baking, and
wrapping!
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Ch Ch Simile & Metaphor
The kids built the The Christmas
snowman like lights were
they were
experts of the twinkling stars
trade! lining the streets.
In the days before Dad was a human

Christmas, the kids calculator, figuring out
were as sweet as the price of all the
candy, hoping to end gifts in the cart before
up on Santa’s good list. the cashier could.
The kids were a
stampede of horses, Mom baked like a
barreling toward the professional,
tree on Christmas yielding 5 dozen
morning. cookies in one day!
On the day before
After leaving the car winter break, the kids
outside during a brutal were like jumping
snowstorm, the family’s beans, completely
unable to focus on
car was a freezer. anything at school!
The family carefully
loaded their freshly The kids on the
cut tree into the car, sleds sped down
treating it like a piece the snowy hill as
of fine china. fast as race cars.

When Katie got the Lana was a picture
toy Marla wanted of perfection when
for Christmas, Marla she put on her
stomped her foot like beautiful gown for
a toddler throwing a
tantrum. the winter ball.
When she saw the kids After spending all day ice
begin to have a glitter skating, the kids were as
fight, the teacher leapt hungry as horses.
across the room as fast
as a cheetah.

The line to see Santa stretched
The gifts were a throughout the halls of the mall
teetering tower like a snake weaving its way
piled up around through the grass.
the tree.
The students were angels The kids snuggled

as they waited for their up by the warm
winter party. They didn’t fireplace like
want to get in trouble and kittens to their
miss any of it! mom.
The string of
Christmas lights The gift was wrapped like a
hung from the work of art.
house like a thread
blowing in the wind.
Simile or Simile or Simile or Simile or
# # # #
Metaphor? Metaphor? Metaphor? Metaphor?
1. 9. 17. 25.
2. 10. 18. 26.
3. 11. 19. 27.
4. 12. 20. 28.
5. 13. 21. 29.
6. 14. 22. 30.
7. 15. 23. 31.
8. 16. 24. 32.

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Simile or Simile or Simile or Simile or
# # # #
Metaphor? Metaphor? Metaphor? Metaphor?
1. Simile 9. Metaphor 17. Metaphor 25. Simile

2. Simile 10. Simile 18. Simile 26. Simile
3. Metaphor 11. Simile 19. Metaphor 27. Metaphor
4. Simile 12. Metaphor 20. Simile 28. Simile
5. Metaphor 13. Simile 21. Simile 29. Metaphor
6. Metaphor 14. Metaphor 22. Smile 30. Simile
7. Simile 15. Simile 23. Simile 31. Simile
8. Simile 16. Metaphor 24. Metaphor 32. Simile
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At night, the The falling icicle

The sun was a stove, The bright

The deals on Christmas

Mom was as giddy as a kid on Santa was as

The boy was like a

After a busy Christmas In the days leading up

In the days before Dad was a human

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The students were angels The kids snuggled

2. 10. 18. 26.

3. 11. 19. 27.

4. 12. 20. 28.

5. 13. 21. 29.

6. 14. 22. 30.

7. 15. 23. 31.

8. 16. 24. 32.

1. Simile 9. Metaphor 17. Metaphor 25. Simile

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