Similes and Metaphors
<p>This resource contains a short PowerPoint on metaphors and similes and the differences between them.</p>
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<p><strong><a href="https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/similes-and-metaphors-11297366">Similes and Metaphors PowerPoint Lesson</a></strong></p>
<p>This resource contains a 37 slide PowerPoint lesson on similes and metaphors.</p>
<p>The PowerPoint includes:</p>
<p>An explanation and definition of simile and metaphors.<br />
Why they are used.<br />
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.<br />
The difference between similes and metaphors.<br />
Images to stimulate students to compose their own similes and metaphors.<br />
Opportunities to identify, and distinguish between, similes and metaphors.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/similes-and-metaphors-set-of-16-worksheets-11300520">Similes and Metaphors - Set of 13 Worksheets</a></strong></p>
<p>This resource contains a set of 16 worksheets. Tasks include:</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>This resource also contains an explanation sheet on the similes and metaphors and the differences between then with examples.</p>
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