simile
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PowerPoint to introduce simile.Created for an assignment that asked us to create a unit plan.TRANSCRIPT
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Similes
“Their love was as spontaneous as a supernova, and as endless
as the universe”
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Simile
• A figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by like or as.
“Like the moon reflected in the water”- Buddha
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Examples of Similes
“Life is like a box of chocolates”- Forrest Gump“Death lies on her like an untimely frost”-
Shakespeare“I love you like all little children love pennies”-
Alan Jackson
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Discussion Time
• What songs do you know that use similes?• Can you think of any books that use it?• What movies use similes?
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Poem Using Simile
FlintAn 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 a fire.Christina Rossetti
1830-1894
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Credits:• http://images2.layoutsparks.com/1/149321/queen-moon-water-dark.jpg• http://www.williamsclass.com/EighthScienceWork/ImagesEighth/SuperNovaRemin
ant.jpg• http://gooddeedaday.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/forrest_gump.jpg• http://www.jtpeters.net/images/gems/Gemstones-Scatter-copy.jpg• http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/simileclassics.html