Similes and Metaphors

How do I recognize and create similes and metaphors in writing?

Know Understand Do

HyperbolePersonificationSimileMetaphor(Pun)

Authors use figurative language to make the reader see familiar things in a new way.We all use figures of speech every day.Figures of speech are not literally true, but are used to elaborate on a subject.

Differentiate among the types of figurative language.Write in a variety of modes using figurative language.Analyze the use of figurative language in poetry and prose.Create an extended metaphor.

Key Learning: Writers use figurative language to enhance the reader’s understanding. It is used in various types of writing.

Unit Essential Question: How does understanding figurative language enhance comprehension? 0701.8.10

Concept:

Literal vs. Figurative

Concept:

Similes and Metaphors

Concept:

HyperbolesConcept:

Personification

Lesson Essential Questions:

How do I differentiate between literal and figurative language?

Lesson Essential Questions:

How do I recognize and create similes and metaphors in writing?

Lesson Essential Questions:

How do I analyze hyperboles for literal and figurative meanings?

Lesson Essential Questions:

How do I interpret the use of personification in writing?

Unit VocabularyLiteral PersonificationFigurative PersonifySimileSimile AnthropomorphismAnthropomorphismMetaphorMetaphorHyperbole

Activator• Fill in the blank with as many different

words as you can think of.

Life is like a____________.

Love is a_____________.

The Simile• A simile is a comparison using like or

as.–It usually compares two dissimilar

objects.

ExampleHis feet were as big as boats.

We are comparing the size of feet to boats.

The Simile - Practice

• Using the poem on the next slides, see if you can identify all of the similes.– Underline all the similes found in this

poem.• Decide which items are being

compared.

The Simile“Willow and Ginkgo”

by Eve Merriam

The willow is like an etching,Fine-lined against the sky.

The ginkgo is like a crude sketch,Hardly worthy to be signed.

The willow’s music is like a soprano,Delicate and thin.

The ginkgo’s tune is like a chorusWith everyone joining in.

The Simile- “The Willow”

The willow is sleek as a velvet-nosed calf;The ginkgo is leathery as an old bull.

The willow’s branches are like silken thread;The ginkgo’s like stubby rough wool.

The Simile - “The Willow”

The willow is like a nymph with streaming hair;

Wherever it grows, there is green and gold and fair.

The willow dips to the water,Protected and precious, like the king’s

favorite daughter.

The Simile- “The Willow”

The ginkgo forces its way through gray concrete;Like a city child, it grows up in the street.

Thrust against the metal sky,Somehow it survives and even thrives.

My eyes feast upon the willow,But my heart goes to the ginkgo.

The Simile - Practice Answer Check

• Let’s see how you did!

The Simile“Willow and Ginkgo”

by Eve Merriam

The willow is like an etching,Fine-lined against the sky.

The ginkgo is like a crude sketch,Hardly worthy to be signed.

The willow’s music is like a soprano,Delicate and thin.

The ginkgo’s tune is like a chorusWith everyone joining in.

The Simile - “The Willow”

The willow is sleek as a velvet-nosed calf;The ginkgo is leathery as an old bull.

The willow’s branches are like silken thread;The ginkgo’s like stubby rough wool.

The Simile - “The Willow”

The willow is like a nymph with streaming hair;

Wherever it grows, there is green and gold and fair.

The willow dips to the water,Protected and precious, like the king’s

favorite daughter.

The Simile- “The Willow”

The ginkgo forces its way through gray concrete;Like a city child, it grows up in the street.

Thrust against the metal sky,Somehow it survives and even thrives.

My eyes feast upon the willow,But my heart goes to the ginkgo.

Assessment Prompt 11. Take out a blank sheet of notebook

paper.2. Fold the paper in half

and then fold it in half again (you’ll end up with four blocks).

Assessment Prompt 1

3. Then, take the corner piece and slightly fold that into create a triangle.

4. When you open your paper up, you will have four boxes with a diamond in the middle.

Assessment Prompt 1

5. In the diamond, write:

6. In the first block, write a sentence that includes a simile, then illustrate it.

Similes and Metaphors

Your NameLA, Block___

Assessment Prompt 1

Similes and Metaphors

Your Name

LA, Block___

Simile

Sentence

Illustration

Leave blank for now.

Leave blank for now.

The Metaphor• A metaphor states that one thing is

something else. –A metaphor is a comparison, but it

does NOT use like or as to make the comparison.

ExampleHer hair is silk.

The sentence is comparing (or stating) that hair is silk.

The Metaphor

• Using the writing samples on the next slide, see if you can identify all of the metaphors.– Underline all the metaphors.

• Decide which items are being compared.

The Metaphor - Practice

I think the sun is a flower That blooms for just one

hour….

The sea is a hungry dog,Giant and gray…

The Metaphor - Practice Answer Check

• Let’s see how you did!

The Metaphor - Practice

I think the sun is a flower That blooms for just one

hour….

The sea is a hungry dog,Giant and gray…

A: Sun is being compared to a flower

A: Sea is being compared to a hungry dog

Assessment Prompt 21. In the second block on your graphic

organizer, re-write your simile sentence, but write it so that it is written in a metaphor.

2. Create a new illustration for the metaphor sentence.

Okay… Let’s Recap Take Two

Similes and Metaphors

Your Name

LA, Block___

Simile

Sentence

Illustration

Metaphor

Sentence

Illustration

Leave blank for now.

Assessment Prompt 3• Underline the simile or metaphor found

in each of the ten sample sentences on your PowerNotes.

• Identify each as S for simile, M for metaphor.

Let’s Practice!

1. As the teacher entered the room she muttered under her breath, "This class is like a three-ring circus!”

2. The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the cans on the grocery store shelves.

3. The giant’s steps were thunder as he ran toward Jack.

4. The pillow was a cloud when I put my head upon it after a long day.

5. I feel like a limp dishrag.

Let’s Practice6. Those girls are like two peas in a pod.7. The fluorescent light was the sun during

our test.8. No one invites Harold to parties because

he’s a wet blanket.9. The bar of soap was a slippery eel during

the dog’s bath.10.Ted was as nervous as a cat with a long tail

in a room full of rocking chairs.

Let’s Practice!

1. As the teacher entered the room she muttered under her breath, "This class is like a three-ring circus!“

2. The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the cans on the grocery store shelves.

3. The giant’s steps were thunder as he ran toward Jack.

4. The pillow was a cloud when I put my head upon it after a long day.

5. I feel like a limp dishrag.

Simile

Simile

Metaphor

MetaphorSimile

Let’s Practice

6. Those girls are like two peas in a pod.7. The fluorescent light was the sun during our test.

8. No one invites Harold to parties because he’s a wet blanket.

9. The bar of soap was a slippery eel during the dog’s bath.

10. Ted was as nervous as a cat with a long tail in a room full of rocking chairs.

Simile

Metaphor

Metaphor

Metaphor

Simile

Power Questions1. Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name. There it stood,

years afterwards, above the ware-house door: Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names. It was all the same to him.

• Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.

Power Questions1. Dickens uses the simile "solitary as

an oyster" to describe Mr. Scrooge to show____________________.

A. he was very strongB. he was a miserC.he lived near the seaD. that he lived alone

Power Questions1. Dickens uses the simile "solitary as

an oyster" to describe Mr. Scrooge to show____________________.

A. he was very strongB. he was a miserC.he lived near the seaD. that he lived alone

Power Questions2. The sky was a blanket covered with

lights.

A. metaphorB. simileC.poemD.climax

Power Questions2. The sky was a blanket covered with

lights.

A.metaphorB. simileC.poemD.climax

Power Questions3. “Her heart was beating like a drum in

her chest" . . . is an example of which literary technique?

A. personificationB. metaphorC.simileD.onomatopoeia

Power Questions3. “Her heart was beating like a drum in

her chest" . . . is an example of which literary technique?

A. personificationB. metaphorC.simileD.onomatopoeia

Summarizer• On your graphic organizer:• In the third block and fourth blocks, write

ONE poem that contains two similes and two metaphors.

• Underline each simile once and underline each metaphor twice.

• Your poem needs to be original, and at least six lines in length.

Summarizer

Similes and Metaphors

Your Name

LA, Block ___

Simile

Sentence

Illustration

Metaphor

Sentence

Illustration

Poem

FlintFlintChristina Rossetti

An emerald is as green as grass,A ruby red as blood;

A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;A flint lies in the mud.

A diamond is a brilliant stone,To catch the world's desire;An opal holds a fiery spark;

But a flint holds fire.