similes and metaphors - mrs. bates english...
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Personification, Similes,
and MetaphorsPoetic Devices: Figurative Language
WHAT POETIC DEVICE IS USED?Listen and Analyze
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Simile
• Definition: A comparison of two
unlike things using like or as
• Example: His feet were as big as
boats.
Can you find any similes
in this next poem?
Lenka, “Everything At Once”
As sly as a fox, as strong as an ox
As fast as a hare, as brave as a bear
As free as a bird, as neat as a word
As quiet as a mouse, as big as a house
As mean as a wolf, as sharp as a tooth
As deep as a bite, as dark as the night
As sweet as a song, as right as a wrong
As long as a road, as ugly as a toad
As pretty as a picture hanging from a fixture
Strong like a family, strong as I wanna be
Bright as day, as light as play
As hard as nails, as grand as a whale
What purpose
does simile serve
in this song?
WHY USE SIMILE?Purpose and Impact
help someone understand a concept
create a better idea about the nature of something
give information about unknown objects
add emotion and imagery
WHAT POETIC DEVICE IS USED?Look and Analyze
Metaphor
• Definition: comparing
two unlike things by
stating that one is the
other
• Example: Her hair, the
silk of sun rays, fell down
her back gently.
How does the
speaker feel
towards the girl?
Can you find any
metaphors in this next
poem?
Broomsby Dorothy Aldis
On stormy days
When the wind is high,
Tall trees are brooms
Sweeping the sky.
They swish their branches
In buckets of rain
And swash and sweep it
Blue again.
What is being compared
to what? What is the poet
expressing by using this
metaphor?
WHY USE METAPHOR?Purpose and Impact
help someone understand a concept
create a better idea about the nature of something
give information about unknown objects
add emotion and imagery
WHAT POETIC DEVICE IS USED?Watch and Analyze
Personification
• Definition: Giving human qualities to objects, animals, or ideas
• Example: The orange candy winked at me, beckoning me to match it with it’s three sisters. “Candy Crush, stop stealing my life!” I screamed at the screen.
Can you find
personification
in this next poem?
Autumn brushes her hair slowly
Letting the glorious colors
flow gently to the earth below.
Showing off vibrant colors
in contrast to summer's green dress.
Out doing the starkness,
of winter's white coat.
Autumn compares the mutable
shades of spring to her fall
Giving a sigh, end of another season.
She packs her brush
as frost touches her tips.
What is the
purpose of
personification
in this poem.
WHY USE PERSONIFICATION?Purpose and Impact
connects readers with the object that is personified
make descriptions of non-human entities more vivid
help readers understand, sympathize with, or react
emotionally to non-human characters
Personification, Simile, or Metaphor?
1. The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the cans on the grocery store shelves and kicking wildly from the cart seat.
2. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough, and stands about the woodland ride wearing white for Eastertide.
3. As the teacher entered the room, she muttered under her breath, "This class is like a three-ring circus.” The students stumbled between the desks, laughing lazily.
4. Boom. Boom. The giant’s steps were thunder as he ran toward Jack. Boom. Boom.
5. As I crawled through the field, the shadows trembled in the moonlight.
6. The pillow was as a cloud when I put my head upon it after a long day. I floated away to dreamland.
Now you try:1. I feel like a limp dishrag.
2. Those girls are two peas in a pod.
3. The fluorescent light was the sun during our test.
4. It was the early afternoon of a sunshiny day with little winds
playing hide-and-seek in it.
5. The bar of soap was a slippery eel during the dog’s bath.
6. Ted was as nervous as a cat with a long tail in a room full of
rocking chairs.
Color PracticeWriting Figurative Language
Color Practice
• Each of you is going to get a card with three different
paint samples.
• On your card, write a metaphor, simile, and use of
personification for each color.