SIMILEMETAPHOR

Fairly thorough listGood US lecture

Metaphor

a comparison saying one thing is or was something else. The things being compared must be different.

My anger was a hot wind pushing me on.

Metaphor

He’s paralyzed, a mouse in front of the yawning maw of a python.

Simile

a direct comparison using like or as. The two things being compared must be different.

From the airplane window, clouds looked like layers of onion.

• Josie and Bess like ice cream.

• Caroline swims like a fish.

• The homeless shelter is a beacon of hope.

• Mark slept like a log.

• Isaac is as tall as a tree.

• Mrs. Ray is a coach.• LaBria’s voice is

velvet.• I’ll love you to the

moon as long as I live.

• I like to read. • The perfume smells

like an outhouse.• Our feverish cat was

a furnace.

SIMILE

• Caroline swims like a fish.

• Mark slept like a log.

• Isaac is as tall as a tree.

• The perfume smells like an outhouse.

METAPHOR

• The homeless shelter is a beacon of hope.

• LaBria’s voice is velvet.

• Our feverish cat was a furnace.

NOTHING

• Josie and Bess like ice cream.

• Mrs. Ray is a coach.

• I’ll love you to the moon as long as I live.

• I like to read.