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What do you remember
about SIMILE?
Pick out the part in the statement that
expresses simile.

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved

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one. It's like walking up the stairs to your

bedroom in the dark and thinking that
there's one more stair than there is. Your
foot falls down through the air and there's
a sickly moment of dark surprise." --
delivered by Jude Law (from the movie A
Series of Unfortunate Events)
Understanding Simile
• What is being compared to what?

• Death - is like walking up the stairs to

your bedroom in the dark and thinking
that there's one more stair than there
is. Your foot falls down through the air
and there's a sickly moment of dark
surprise."
Defining Simile
How will you define simile in your own
words?

Simile is a comparison of two unlike

things, typically marked by use of
"like" or "as".
Using Similes in Poetry
Predictable

Poor as a church mouse.

strong as an ox,
cute as a button,
smart as a fox.

thin as a toothpick,
white as a ghost,
fit as a fiddle,
dumb as a post.
 bald as an eagle,
neat as a pin,
proud as a peacock,
ugly as sin.

When people are talking

you know what they'll say
as soon as they start to
use a cliché.

By Bruce Lansky
Using Similes
• :Compare the ff ideas with a simile

LIFE - CHOCOLATES
LOVE - CRAYONS
WINNING – CLIMBING
LOSING - BASKET
HAPPINESS – DAISIES
BOYS – GIRLS
 Check up your knowledge
• Follow the links and do the exercises:
http://www.kidsonthenet.org.uk/dra
gonsville/simile1.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112
392/similepractice.html
What do you remember
about METAPHOR?
• Pick out the Metaphor in this passage:

All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely
players;
They have their exits and their
entrances; — (William Shakespeare, As
You Like It, 2/7)
Understanding Metaphor
• What is being expressed:

That "the world" is compared to a

stage, the aim being to describe the
world by taking well-known attributes
from the stage.
Defining Metaphor
• How will you define Metaphor?

– direct comparison between two or

more seemingly unrelated subjects

• How is this different from Simile?

 Using Metaphors
• Make your own metaphors by filling in
the blanks:
Example: A flower is a soda shop to a
bee. It sips sweet nectar through a
curled straw.

A(n) ______ is a ______ to/for a

_______. It _________
_______ ____________.
Check up your knowledge
• Follow the links and do the exercises:

http://www.rhlschool.com/eng3n26.h
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 What do you remember
about PERSONIFICATION?
• A figure of speech in which inanimate
objects or abstractions are endowed
with human qualities or are
represented as possessing human
form (e.g. Hunger sat shivering on
the road or Flowers danced about the
lawn. )
 Understanding
Personification
• Underline the word that gives a
quality of a person.
1.  The sun stretches its warmth
across the land.
2.  The chair danced as the baby
bounced to and fro.
3.   The darkness wrapped its arms
around me.
 Using Personification
• Look at the words below. Try to give each
word a quality of a human and write a
sentence.
frog____________________________

table ___________________________

grass ___________________________

night ___________________________
What do you remember
about Hyperbole
• An extravagant statement; the use
of exaggerated terms for the
purpose of emphasis or heightened
effect.
• Examples:
– You’ve grown like a bean sprout.
– I’m older than the hills.
– They ran like greased lightning.
– Her brain is the size of a pea.