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Simile Practice 1
By Rhonda Pawlik
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What is a simile?
A sentence using the words 'like' or 'as'
A comparison between two things using 'like' or 'as'
Any comparison of two things.
An object or an animal with human characteristics.
Salad covered the floor
like a large blanket
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A-The salad was warm.
B-The salad tasted awful.
C-There was a large blanket on the floor.
D-A layer of salad covered the floor.
Identify which examples are similes. Choose 3 below.
My brother is a clown.
Life is like a box of chocolates.
We were in a hurry, but my sister was as slow as molasses.
The trees whispered in the wind.
I dropped my ice cream on the ground-splat!
Her voice is as smooth as silk
The floor was
as sticky as glue
.
Glue covered the floor.
The floor was a glue stick.
The floor was very sticky.
Glue made the floor sticky.
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Read the highlighted simile.
What two things are being compared?
A- the waves and the shore
B-the wind and a wolf at night
C-the rain and the darkness
D-the lighthouse and the darkness
What does the simile mean?
"The wind howled like a wolf at night"
A-It means the wind is silent and dark.
B-It means the wind is heavy and intense.
C-It means the wind is very calm and silent.
D-It means the wind is loud and scary.
What two things are being compared in the simile below?
"She wept and cradled the accordion like a newborn baby."
A- Holding a new born baby and two alley cats.
B-Holding the accordion and a sardine
C-Holding the accordion like someone holding a newborn baby.
D-crying over an accordion.
What does the simile below mean? Choose 3 things
"She wept and cradled the accordion like a newborn baby."
Inga loved the accordion.
Inga thought the accordion was too loud like a baby.
Inga treated the accordion very special.
Inga was upset she received the accordion.
She treated it as something special and precious.
What two things are being compared in the simile below?
"It's like two alley cats fighting over a sardine"
A-playing the accordion to the sound of two alley cats fighting over food.
B-playing the accordion to her father's dismay.
C-playing the accordion to being as good as the man on TV.
D-Holding the accordion to rocking it back and forth.
