Similes and Metaphors

This resource contains a short PowerPoint on metaphors and similes and the differences between them.

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Similes and Metaphors PowerPoint Lesson

This resource contains a 37 slide PowerPoint lesson on similes and metaphors.

The PowerPoint includes:

An explanation and definition of simile and metaphors.
Why they are used.
Examples of similes and metaphors from poetry and literature - I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud (William Wordsworth), The Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), The Highwayman (Alfred Noyes), My Luv is Like a Red, Red Rose ( Robert Burns) and the Bible.
The difference between similes and metaphors.
Images to stimulate students to compose their own similes and metaphors.
Opportunities to identify, and distinguish between, similes and metaphors.

Similes and Metaphors - Set of 13 Worksheets

This resource contains a set of 16 worksheets. Tasks include:

identifying similes and metaphors in sentences and poetry and literature from The Ancient Mariner by Coleridge, Sea Fever by John Masefield, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth, The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes, A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns, several Bible verses and Shakespeare quotes.

composing sentences and short paragraphs containing similes and metaphors on themes including foggy day, the haunted house, the snow, the combine harvester, candle flame, trees, hate, love, happiness.

This resource also contains an explanation sheet on the similes and metaphors and the differences between then with examples.

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Similes - PowerPoint Lesson and Worksheets

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