Transcript Similes and Metaphors

Similes and
Metaphors
Similes
Simile: comparing 2 unlike things using
like or as
Example: She was as busy as a bee
Example: I felt as free as a bird
Example: _____ was as _______ as a ______.
Metaphor
Metaphor: comparing 2 unlike things
saying one is the
other
Example: She is a bear when she’s angry.
Example: My classroom is a zoo.
Example: __________ is a _________.
Your Examples
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School is as boring as watching paint dry.
Country music is red ants all over your legs.
School is like being forced to eat broccoli.
Country music is boring.
Country music is heaven on earth.
When I'm happy I do better in school.
I am an awesome person.
Sleeping in is like heaven.
Rain is like mother nature crying.
Firework: Katy Perry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3P9fyJEu6E
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag
Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?
Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin
Like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?
Do you ever feel already buried deep?
Six feet under screams, but no one seems to hear a thing
Do you know that there's still a chance for you
'Cause there's a spark in you?
You just gotta ignite the light and let it shine
Just own the night like the 4th of July
'Cause baby, you're a firework
Come on, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go, oh, oh, oh
As you shoot across the sky
"Mean" Taylor Swift
You, with your words like knives
And swords and weapons that you use against me
You have knocked me off my feet again
Got me feeling like I'm nothing
You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard
Calling me out when I'm wounded
You picking on the weaker man