Similes and Metaphors

1. Similes and Metaphors How do I recognize and create similes and metaphors in writing?

3. Key Learning: Writers use figurative language to enhance the reader’s understanding. It is used in various types of writing. Unit Essential Question: How does understanding figurative language enhance comprehension? 0701.8.10 Concept: Literal vs. Figurative Concept: Similes and Metaphors Concept: Hyperboles Concept: Personification Lesson Essential Questions: How do I differentiate between literal and figurative language? Lesson Essential Questions: How do I recognize and create similes and metaphors in writing? Lesson Essential Questions: How do I analyze hyperboles for literal and figurative meanings? Lesson Essential Questions: How do I interpret the use of personification in writing?

4. Unit Vocabulary Literal Personification Figurative Personify SimileAnthropomorphism Metaphor Hyperbole

5. Activator • Fill in the blank with as many different words as you can think of. Life is like a____________. Love is a_____________.

6. The Simile • A simile is a comparison using like or as. • It usually compares two dissimilar objects. Example His feet were as big as boats. We are comparing the size of feet to boats.

7. The Simile - Practice • Using the poem on the next slides, see if you can identify all of the similes. • Underline all the similes found in this poem. • Decide which items are being compared.

8. The Simile “Willow and Ginkgo” by 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 willow’s music is like a soprano, Delicate and thin. The ginkgo’s tune is like a chorus With everyone joining in.

9. The Simile- “The Willow” The willow is sleek as a velvet-nosed calf; The ginkgo is leathery as an old bull. The willow’s branches are like silken thread; The ginkgo’s like stubby rough wool.

10. The Simile - “The Willow” The willow is like a nymph with streaming hair; Wherever it grows, there is green and gold and fair. The willow dips to the water, Protected and precious, like the king’s favorite daughter.

11. The Simile- “The Willow” The ginkgo forces its way through gray concrete; Like a city child, it grows up in the street. Thrust against the metal sky, Somehow it survives and even thrives. My eyes feast upon the willow, But my heart goes to the ginkgo.

12. The Simile - Practice Answer Check • Let’s see how you did!

13. The Simile “Willow and Ginkgo” by 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 willow’s music is like a soprano, Delicate and thin. The ginkgo’s tune is like a chorus With everyone joining in.

14. The Simile - “The Willow” The willow is sleek as a velvet-nosed calf; The ginkgo is leathery as an old bull. The willow’s branches are like silken thread; The ginkgo’s like stubby rough wool.

15. The Simile - “The Willow” The willow is like a nymph with streaming hair; Wherever it grows, there is green and gold and fair. The willow dips to the water, Protected and precious, like the king’s favorite daughter.

16. The Simile- “The Willow” The ginkgo forces its way through gray concrete; Like a city child, it grows up in the street. Thrust against the metal sky, Somehow it survives and even thrives. My eyes feast upon the willow, But my heart goes to the ginkgo.

17. Assessment Prompt 1 • Take out a blank sheet of notebook paper. • Fold the paper in half and then fold it in half again (you’ll end up with four blocks).

18. Assessment Prompt 1 Then, take the corner piece and slightly fold that into create a triangle. 4. When you open your paper up, you will have four boxes with a diamond in the middle.

19. Assessment Prompt 1 In the diamond, write: Similes and Metaphors Your Name LA, Block___ • In the first block, write a sentence that includes a simile, then illustrate it.

20. Assessment Prompt 1 Simile Sentence Illustration Leave blank for now. Similes and Metaphors Your Name LA, Block___ Leave blank for now.

21. The Metaphor • A metaphorstates that one thing is something else. • A metaphor is a comparison, but it does NOT use like or as to make the comparison. Example Her hair is silk. The sentence is comparing (or stating) that hair is silk.

22. The Metaphor • Using the writing samples on the next slide, see if you can identify all of the metaphors. • Underline all the metaphors. • Decide which items are being compared.

23. I think the sun is a flower That blooms for just one hour…. The sea is a hungry dog, Giant and gray… The Metaphor - Practice

24. The Metaphor - Practice Answer Check • Let’s see how you did!

25. I think the sun is a flower That blooms for just one hour…. The sea is a hungry dog, Giant and gray… The Metaphor - Practice A: Sun is being compared to a flower A: Sea is being compared to a hungry dog

26. Assessment Prompt 2 • In the second block on your graphic organizer, re-write your simile sentence, but write it so that it is written in a metaphor. • Create a new illustration for the metaphor sentence.

27. Okay… Let’s Recap Take Two Simile Sentence Illustration Metaphor Sentence Illustration Similes and Metaphors Your Name LA, Block___ Leave blank for now.

28. Assessment Prompt 3 • Underline the simile or metaphor found in each of the ten sample sentences on your PowerNotes. • Identify each as S for simile, M for metaphor.

29. Let’s Practice! • As the teacher entered the room she muttered under her breath, "This class is like a three-ring circus!” • The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the cans on the grocery store shelves. • The giant’s steps were thunder as he ran toward Jack. • The pillow was a cloud when I put my head upon it after a long day. • I feel like a limp dishrag.

30. Let’s Practice • Those girls are like two peas in a pod. • The fluorescent light was the sun during our test. • No one invites Harold to parties because he’s a wet blanket. • The bar of soap was a slippery eel during the dog’s bath. • Ted was as nervous as a cat with a long tail in a room full of rocking chairs.

31. Let’s Practice! • As the teacher entered the room she muttered under her breath, "This class is like a three-ring circus!“ • The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the cans on the grocery store shelves. • The giant’s steps were thunder as he ran toward Jack. • The pillow was a cloud when I put my head upon it after a long day. • I feel like a limp dishrag. Simile Simile Metaphor Metaphor Simile

32. Let’s Practice Simile • Those girls are like two peas in a pod. • The fluorescent light was the sun during our test. • No one invites Harold to parties because he’s a wet blanket. • The bar of soap was a slippery eel during the dog’s bath. • Ted was as nervous as a cat with a long tail in a room full of rocking chairs. Metaphor Metaphor Metaphor Simile

33. Power Questions • Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the ware-house door: Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names. It was all the same to him. • Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.

34. Power Questions • Dickens uses the simile "solitary as an oyster" to describe Mr. Scrooge to show____________________. • he was very strong • he was a miser • he lived near the sea • that he lived alone

35. Power Questions • Dickens uses the simile "solitary as an oyster" to describe Mr. Scrooge to show____________________. • he was very strong • he was a miser • he lived near the sea • that he lived alone

36. Power Questions 2. The sky was a blanket covered with lights. • metaphor • simile • poem • climax

37. Power Questions 2. The sky was a blanket covered with lights. • metaphor • simile • poem • climax

38. Power Questions 3. “Her heart was beating like a drum in her chest" . . . is an example of which literary technique? • personification • metaphor • simile • onomatopoeia

39. Power Questions 3. “Her heart was beating like a drum in her chest" . . . is an example of which literary technique? • personification • metaphor • simile • onomatopoeia

40. Summarizer • On your graphic organizer: • In the third block and fourth blocks, write ONE poem that contains two similes and two metaphors. • Underline each simile once and underline each metaphor twice. • Your poem needs to be original, and at least six lines in length.

41. Summarizer Simile Sentence Illustration Metaphor Sentence Illustration Similes and Metaphors Your Name LA, Block ___ Poem

42. Flint Christina Rossetti An 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 fire.