Similes_and_Metaphors

Similes and Metaphors: 

1 Similes and Metaphors

Similes and Metaphors: 

Similes and Metaphors Writers often use comparisons to make their descriptions more vivid (real) The two main types of comparison you need to know here, are similes and metaphors

What is a SIMILE?: 

3 What is a SIMILE? A simile is the comparison of two unlike things using the word 'like' or 'as', e.g. an example of a simile would be as big as a bus. Can you think of others?

Slide 4: 

4 As cute as a cupcake As dead as a doornail As dead as the dodo As deaf as a post As delicate as a flower As dense as a brick As different as chalk from cheese

Can you spot the simile?: 

5 Can you spot the simile? The winter day broke blue and bright, With glancing sun and glancing spray, As o’er the swell our boat made way, As gallant as a gull in flight. How does the simile work here?

Metaphors: 

6 Metaphors So, what is a metaphor? A metaphor is like a simile. That's because it is a comparison that is made between things, which is not always likely or obvious. However, the obvious use of the word 'like' or 'as' which you see in a simile, is not used in a metaphor which is rather a comparison of two unlike things .

Metaphors: 

7 Metaphors He has the heart of a lion You are the sun in my sky You are the light in my life She is my East and my West, my compass. You had better pull your socks up Life is a mere dream, a fleeting shadow on a cloudy day. Love is a lemon.

Funny Similes!!!: 

8 Funny Similes!!! His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer. McMurphy fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a paper bag filled with vegetable soup.

Difference between them…: 

9 Difference between them… As you know a metaphor is an image where you say that one thing is actually something else, for example, ‘my love is a lion’. This sort of an image is not literally true, my love is not a lion but he is fierce, strong, handsome and just a little bit frightening. My use of this metaphor is not telling you the literal truth about my love but is giving you a good impression of what my love is like. A metaphor gives you a vivid and immediate impression therefore, stronger than the impression given by a simile. In a simile my love would only resemble a lion, in a metaphor he really is one – a big difference I think.

But remember…: 

10 But remember… Similes say that something is like something else. Metaphors say that something is something else!

THE END!: 

THE END! AS EASY AS PIE!