

Similes and Metaphors
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English
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4th Grade
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Medium
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Standards-aligned
Elaine Reed
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4 Slides • 8 Questions
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Personal Narratives: My Story, My Voice
Learning Objective:
SWBAT describe how author’s use of simile and metaphor achieves specific purposes. |
Demonstration of Learning:
I will describe how author’s use of simile and metaphor achieves specific purposes.
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Interactive Notebook
Define Simile and Metaphor
Find them in the song
Describe how they achieve a specific purpose.
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Multiple Select
Select all of the similes.
The man was strong as an ox
he ice was a glacier in my glass.
My teacher is as sharp as a tack.
The little girl eats like a bird.
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Multiple Select
Select all of the metaphors.
The papers are a mountain on my desk.
The kids were a hurricane in the playroom.
The sound of rain was footsteps on the roof.
It is raining like cats and dogs.
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Analyzing Similes and Metaphors
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Drag and Drop
In this simile, the
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Multiple Choice
What does the simile, "The hungry child ate his food like a pig," mean?
The child likes pigs
The child ate a pig for dinner.
The child was so hungry he ate in a fast sloppy manner.
The child and a pig ate dinner together.
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Multiple Choice
The figurative language in this sentence illustrates that —
leaves are quiet in the forest
leaves change colors in the fall
the forest provides natural resources
the forest creates a sense of tranquility
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Multiple Choice
Part A:
What type of figurative language contains the following sentence?
Simile
Metaphor
idiom
personification
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Multiple Choice
Part B:
The figurative language in the sentence helps the reader understand that grandma’s hair is —
so beautiful that everybody would like to have it.
So tangled and dull that she struggles with it.
very smooth and shiny, nice to look at.
very white that she looks older than she is.
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Multiple Select
The sentence has a metaphor that compares life to a curly slide to demonstrate that life is —
Select TWO correct answers.
adventurous
happiness
a situation
encouragement
unpredictable
Personal Narratives: My Story, My Voice
Learning Objective:
SWBAT describe how author’s use of simile and metaphor achieves specific purposes. |
Demonstration of Learning:
I will describe how author’s use of simile and metaphor achieves specific purposes.
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