This is About/This is

Really About Strategy

Similes
Homer’s The Iliad
CCSS.ELA.LITERACY.RL.7.4: Determine the meaning of
words and phrases as they are used in a text, including
figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact
of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g.,
alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or
section of a story or drama.
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Complete the Simile:
• Blind as a…
• Quiet as a…
• Clean as a…
• Cool as a…
 Definitions
• Simile  the comparison of one thing with
another thing of a different kind, used to
make a description more vivid
• Epic Simile  an extended simile often
running to several lines, used typically in
epic poetry to intensify the heroic stature of
the subject
This is About/This is Really About
 Argives answered Agamemnon with a
mighty roar, like waves by a steep cliff
crashing on the rock face, lashed by
South Wind’s blasts, always foaming on
the rock, whipped on by every wind
gusting here and there.
Book 2, Lines 469-472
 Just as a man stumbles on a snake
in some mountainous ravine and gives
way, jumping back, his limbs trembling,
his cheeks pale, so godlike Paris, afraid
of Atreus’s son, slid back into proud
Trojan ranks.
Book 3, Lines 33-36
 As two lions, cared for by their mother in a
deep thick forest on a mountain peak, steal
stout sheep and cattle and plunder people’s
farmsteads, until they perish, killed by sharp
bronze in the hands of men, so these two
died, cut down by Aeneas. They fell like lofty
pines.
Book 5, Lines 651-656
Questions?