Similes
What two words are usually used in a simile?
What is Like or as
What makes a metaphor different from a simile?
What is compares two things without using like or as.
What is personification?
Giving human traits to nonhuman things.
What is onomatopoeia?
Words that imitate sounds.
What is an idiom?
A phrase whose meaning is different from the literal word
“She’s as busy as a bee.” What does this mean?
What is She is very hardworking or active
“Her heart is gold.” What does this metaphor mean?
What is She is kind and generous.
“The wind whispered through the trees.” What human action is given to the wind?
Whispering.
Which is an example of onomatopoeia? A) Fast B) Buzz C) Smooth
Buzz
What does “break a leg” mean?
Good luck.
“The car was as cold as ice.” What is being compared?
What is The car and ice.
Identify the metaphor: “The classroom was a zoo.” What does this mean?
What is The classroom was noisy or chaotic.
Create a personification sentence about a storm.
(Student answers vary; e.g., “The storm screamed angrily.”)
Name three onomatopoeia words you might hear in a comic book.
(Students may say: Pow, Bam, Crash.)
What does “it’s raining cats and dogs” mean?
It’s raining very heavily.
Create your own simile using the word “fast.”
What is Needed to use like or as
Create a metaphor for “time.”
(Student answers vary; e.g., “Time is a thief.”)
Identify the personification: “The sun smiled down on us.”
The sun “smiled.”
“The bacon sizzled in the pan.” Identify the onomatopoeia word.
Sizzled
Identify the idiom: “She spilled the beans.” What does it mean?
She told a secret.
Identify the simile: “He slept like a rock after the long trip.” What two things are compared?
What is He and a rock.
Explain the meaning: “The world is a stage.”
What is Life is like a performance where everyone has a role.
Why do authors use personification?
To make writing more vivid and imaginative.
Create a sentence using at least two onomatopoeia words.
(Students answer; e.g., “The door creaked and the cat meowed.”)
Create your own sentence using an idiom.
(Student responses vary.)