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Simile Practice 1
By Rhonda Pawlik
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Question 1
1.
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.
Question 2
2.
Salad covered the floor
like a large blanket
.
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.
Question 3
3.
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
Question 4
4.
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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Question 5
5.
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
Question 6
6.
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.
Question 7
7.
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.
Question 8
8.
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.
Question 9
9.
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.
