Lesson 36 Similes/ METAPHORS 36 b

A Simile is a literary device that compares two things in an interesting and vivid way. Words such as "like" and "as' are used to compare two ideas.

1. He was as quiet as a mouse

As he entered his father's hospital room, he was as quiet as a mouse.

2. smelling like a rose

After winning the lawsuit, she walked out the court house smelling like a rose and waving her hands in the air with joy.

3. As dry as sandpaper

The cracked earth near the Salton Sea was as dry as sandpaper.

4. roared like an angry lion

The lightening and thunder over the dark skies roared like an angry lion.

5. swim like a fish

She swims like a fish because she had lessons at the young age of 2.

6. eat like a bird-

When the starlet was asked how she stayed so thin, she said: "I eat like a bird."

7.As clean as an operating room

Her bright and shiny kitchen is as clean as an operating room.

8. as blind as a bat

Without my glasses I am as blind as a bat.

9. footsteps as soft as cat paws

My grandmother prefers that we walk around her house in socks to keep our footsteps as soft as cat paws.

10. as white as a ghost

Her face became as white as a ghost when she spotted the burglar in her house.

11.money like water

He is not very frugal with his money, he spends money like water.

12. as old as the hills

The story of how my grandparents met was as old as the hills.

13.as tall as a giraffe

The boy is only in middle school and he is already 6 feet tall, soon he will be as tall as a giraffe.

14. As hungry as a bear

The construction worker was as hungry as a bear after a long day of laying brick to build a house.

15. as free as a bird

After retiring from her teaching job of over thirty years, she felt free as a bird to pursue something new. 

16. raining like cats and dogs

It was raining like cats and dogs during the torrential rains of the summer of 2000.

17. sound like kittens lapping

The water made a sound like kittens lapping.

Advertising Slogans:

18. State Farm Insurance-like a good neighbor

Like a good neighbor State Farm is there.

19. Doritos Snack Chips- Taste like awesome feels.

Try a bag of Doritos Snack chips, they taste like awesome feels.

20.Honda Cars- The Honda's ride is as smooth as a gazelle in the Sahara.  

Its comfort is like a hug from nana.

21. Almonds Joy/Mounds Candy- Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't

UPCOMING; SIMILE, METAPHOR, ANALOGY

A metaphor is something, a simile is like something, and an analogy explains how one thing being like another helps explain them both. 

She is like an angel. =  simile

She is an angel = metaphor

She is like an angel in that angels are kind and good, and she is kind and good to others. = analogy

 Metaphors>

Is a literary device that imaginatively draws a comparison between two unlike things.

1. All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree. Albert Einstein

2. Chaos is a friend of mine. Bob Dylan

3. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso

4. America has tossed its cap over the wall of space. John Kennedy

5. A good conscience is a continual Christmas.  Benjamin Franklin

6. Dying is a wild night and a new road. Emily Dickenson

7. Conscience is a man's compass. Vincent Van Gogh

8. The kids were just bowls of ice cream melting in the sun.

9.The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed. It was past eight thirty and still light. Kate Chopin, The Storm

10. Marriage is not a house or even a tent.  Margaret Atwood "Habitation

11. She was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion. Caroline B. Cooney, The Face on the Milk Carton

12. Time is the moving image of eternity. Plato

13. Books are the mirrors of the soul.  Virginia Woolf

14. I'm a genie in a bottle. You gotta rub me the right way. Christina Aguilera "Genie in a Bottle"

15.  I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

Mother Teresa

16. The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Joseph Campbell , Psychology of the Future

17. You're  a marshmallow.  Soft and sweet and when you get heated up you go all gooey and delicious.  Janet Evanovich, One for the Money

18, All words in every language are metaphors.  Marshall McLuhan

19. Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.  Bodie Thoene

With Michael Torquato DeNicola at Swing Street Gallery 8/19.22

Love is...(comic strip)

Love is letting her have the first bite.

 Love is laughing at the same old joke.

Love is letting your heart rule your head.

Love is quietly watching a hummingbird having lunch.

Love is never letting the sun set on your anger.