Comparison(Simile)

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Comparison(Simile)
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Comparison

• Comparison (Simile) compare two different
  things using the words, LIKE, AS, or THAN
• Example
• She laughs like a hyena
• I am as cool as a cucumber
• I am smarter than a computer

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What does a Simile Really Mean?

• My feet are as warm as toast
• Does it mean.
• My toast smells funny
• Toast feels good on my feet
• My feet are warm

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What does it really mean?

• She looked as pretty as a picture
• Does it mean?
• She is very pretty
• Artists paint pictures of her
• She dressed like her picture

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Lets do it together

• She dances like ________________
• He is creative like ______________
• He swims like _____________
• She runs like _________________

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Try it on your own

• Finish the following comparisons (similes)
• She is smart like _________
• He kicks like _________
• The cookies she baked tasted like _________

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Lets try it together

• He was as brave as ________________
• She is as graceful as ________________
• He is as sneaky as ________________
• She talks as loud as ________________

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Try it on your own

• Finish these comparisons (similes)
• Her heart is as big as ___________
• His ideas were creative as _______________
• The sidewalk is as slippery as ___________

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Lets Try it Together

• He is stronger than _____________
• She is prettier than ______________
• He is more excited than _________________
• She was more surprised than _________________

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Try it yourself

• Finish these comparisons (similes)
• He is louder than _____________
• She was grumpier than ___________
• He was more cheerful than ____________

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Dog

• Fur soft as a blanket
• Energy like a full battery
• Heart as big as a whale
• Just wanting to spread his love
• Pattern
• Simile
• Simile
• Simile
• Sentence

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Exaggeration (hyperbole)

• Exaggeration (Hyperbole) something that is so
  far-fetched it cannot be true
• Example
• I tried a thousand times
• I ate a mountain of chocolate chips
• I slept all winter

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If you didnt know it was an Exaggeration

• I ate a mountain of chocolate chips

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If you didnt know it was an exaggeration

• Mile high ice-cream cone

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She cried
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Its so cold, even the
wore
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Lets try it together

• I am so hungry ___________
• I have a ___________ of homework
• You could have knocked me over _____________
• That joke is so old _________________

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Try it yourself

• I have to walk ______________ to school
• The new toy I want is so expensive it costs
  ___________
• I am so hungry ______________
• I have told you __________ not to lie

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What am i?

• Im bigger than the entire earth
• More powerful than the sea
• Though a million, billion have tried
• Not one could ever stop me.
• I control each person with my hand
• and hold up fleets of ships.
• I can make them bend to my will
• with one word from my lips.
• Im the greatest power in the world
• in this entire nation.
• No one should ever try to stop
• a childs imagination.

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My Dog

• His bark breaks the sound barrier
• His nose is as cold as an ice box.
• A wag of his tail causes hurricanes
• His jumping causes falling rocks.
• He eats a mountain of dog food
• And drinks a water fall dry.
• But though he breaks the bank
• Hes the apple of my eye.