Similes and Metaphors

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Similes and Metaphors

• Using comparison in writing

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Definitions

• Simile is the comparison of two unlike things
  using like or as.
• Metaphor is comparison of two unlike things using
  the verb "to be" and not using like or as as in a
  simile.

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Similes

• He eats like a pig.
• Compares a persons eating habits to a pigs
  eating habits.
• Uses the word like to bring the two different
  ideas together
• Vines like golden prisons.
• Compares the vines to a prison

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More Simile Examples

• Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed
  lovers raced across the grassy field toward each
  other like two freight trains, one having left
  Cleveland at 636 pm traveling 55 mph, the other
  from Topeka at 419 pm at a speed of 35 mph.
• He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.

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Find the Simile

• We were drawn from the weedsWe were brave like
  soldiersFalling down under the pale
  moonlightYou were holding to meLike someone
  brokenAnd I couldnt tell you, but Im telling
  you now

Two similes in here. Where are they and what
items are being compared?
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Metaphors

• The little boy gently drifted across the pond
  exactly the way a bowling ball wouldnt.
• The boy drifting is being compared to a bowling
  ball drifting
• The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you
  get from not eating for a while.
• The two looks are compared

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Find the Metaphors

• They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood
  with picket fences that resembled Nancy
  Kerrigans teeth.
• The smoke drifts upwards, swirling into curlicues
  of tumbling chaos that some mathematicians
  believe hold clues to the secret of the universe.

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Credits

• Ever the Same, Rob Thomas
• Waiterrant.com
• Unknown sources