Take a few moments to view the YouTube video. It provides a fun but informative overview of these comparison tools.

 

Metaphors or similes are comparisons sometimes using the words “like” or “as.” For example, “writing is like swimming” or the “sky is as blue as map water” or “the keyboard wrinkled with ideas.” When you create a metaphor, you put one idea in terms of another and thereby create a new vision of the original idea. Sometimes it may be easier to create a metaphor or simile to help you understand your view of an idea before you can put it fully into sentences or paragraphs.

 

Write a metaphor or simile for some of the terms below and then explain to someone why your metaphor works or what it means to you.

 

a cell phone

a glass of milk

cows grazing in a field

a barn

a furnace

a group of students studying

a hair brush

a canteen full of water

a desert

a hot fudge sundae

little white rabbits

a brick house

a new wood floor

sizzling bacon

a crying child