Similes

“Their love was as spontaneous as a supernova, and as endless

as the universe”

Simile

• A figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by like or as.

“Like the moon reflected in the water”- Buddha

Examples of Similes

“Life is like a box of chocolates”- Forrest Gump“Death lies on her like an untimely frost”-

Shakespeare“I love you like all little children love pennies”-

Alan Jackson

Discussion Time

• What songs do you know that use similes?• Can you think of any books that use it?• What movies use similes?

Poem Using Simile

FlintAn emerald is as green as grass,

A ruby red as blood;A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;

A flint lies in the mud.A diamond is a brilliant stone,

To catch the world's desire;An opal holds a fiery spark;

But a flint holds a fire.Christina Rossetti

1830-1894

Credits:• http://images2.layoutsparks.com/1/149321/queen-moon-water-dark.jpg• http://www.williamsclass.com/EighthScienceWork/ImagesEighth/SuperNovaRemin

ant.jpg• http://gooddeedaday.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/forrest_gump.jpg• http://www.jtpeters.net/images/gems/Gemstones-Scatter-copy.jpg• http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/simileclassics.html