Multiple Meaning Words
Figurative Language: Metaphor or Simile
Figurative Language: Tell the Meaning
Comparing/Contrasting
100

Ring

Jewlery you wear on your finger

The sound a phone makes when someone calls you

100

Quiet as a cat

Simile

100

Raining cats and dogs

Raining very hard


100

Compare and apple and an orange

Both fruits and round

One is sweet and one is tart

One is red and one is orange

200

Foot

A body part

The length of something


200

Raining Cats and Dogs

Metaphor

200

My sister has a competition coming up and she is busy as a bee. 

Very busy

200

Compare a Zebra and a Polar Bear

Both animals and found at the zoo

One is lives in hot weather, the other lives in cold weather

A polar bear is aggressive, a zebra is not.

300

Pool

A game you play 

Something you swim in

300

Sings like an angel

Simile

300

She is cool as a cucumber when her friend started crying. 

Very calm


300

Compare winter and summer

Both are seasons and have holidays

One is cold and one is hot

One has Christmas and one has 4th of July

400

Squash

A vegetable

To squish something

400

Hard as nails

Simile


400

You better knock on wood that you didn't lose your cell phone. 

Hope that it does not happen

400

Compare Jacket and tank top

Both clothing and made of cloth

One for hot weather and one for cold weather

500

Strike

To hit someone

When you knock all the pins over in bowling

500

The world is a stage

Metaphor


500

My mom's house is clean as a whistle.

Very clean

500

Compare Milk and Coke

Both drinks, you drink them

One is soda and one is not

One is healthy and one is not