T2+Narrative

Thursday 9th June

Topic: Identifying Similes Directions: Complete the simile by filling in the blank. 1. The car was as dirty as a pig after a mud bath. 2. The candy was like biting into a sugar-coated cloud __.__ __3. His hands were as big__ as a elephant's foot __4. My little brother sounds like__ a dying walrus. __5. My room is as messy as__ a nuclear-explosion testing plant. __6. School is like a ancient dungeon. __ 7. The chair was as hard as a solid rock. __8. Her hair looked like__ a five-year-old attacked it with a lawn-mower. 9. The monster’s breath was like visiting a sewage plant. 10. The water was as cold as Greenland in winter. 11. My lunch tasted like rotten fish. 12. The rabbit was as soft as a silk cloak.

Metaphors Metaphors are imaginative ways to describe something by comparing that thing to something else. For example, if I wanted to say that Dan is tall, I could say that Dan is a giant.

Use a metaphor to describe somebody who is:

tall- She was a tall giant. kind- He was very kind and nice. fast- He was a fast cheetah. slow-He was a slow turtle. smart-She was a smart cookie. fat- He was a fat hippo. sneaky-He was a sneaky cat. angry-She was a angry lion. beautiful- She was a beautiful flower. ugly-She was a ugly troll. stubborn-She was a stubborn pig. short-She was a short mouse. thin- She was stick thin. silly- She was a silly monkey. scared easily- She was a scared easily cat. He is a giant- He is a giant building. She is an angle- She is an angle from above.

This is our prior knowledge of similies displayed as a wordle document Similies: Comparing two things that are not alike using like or as. Eg. He was as fast as a cheetah. Eg. She could jump as high as a rabbit. Eg. Her face was as red as a tomato.

This is our prior knowledge of metaphors displayed as a wordle document Metaphor: Are comparisons of two unlike without using a single word such as "as" and Eg. The building was a maze. Eg. The man was a demon. Eg. Her scream was a knife through my brain.