Similes and Metaphors

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Similes and Metaphors

• Poetry Devices

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Simile

• A comparison using like or as
• His feet were as big as boats.

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Similes

• Willow and Ginkgo
• 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 willows music is like a soprano,
• Delicate and thin.
• The ginkgos tune is like a chorus
• With everyone joining in.
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• The willow is sleek as a velvet-nosed calf
• The ginkgo is leathery as an old bull.
• The willows branches are like silken thread
• The ginkgos like stubby rough wool.
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Metaphor

• A metaphor states that one thing is something
  else. It is a comparison, but it does NOT use
  like or as to make the comparison.
• Her hair is silk.
• She is a bear.
• She is an angel.

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Metaphors

• Dreams
• Langston Hughes
• Hold fast to dreams
• For if dreams die
• Life is a broken-winged bird
• That cannot fly.
• Hold fast to dreams
• For when dreams go
• Life is a barren field
• Frozen with snow.