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This worksheet challenges students to identify the difference between similes and metaphors. Middle grade students enjoy the lyrics which commonly have built in similes and metaphors.

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Metaphors

This worksheet challenges students to identify the difference between similes and metaphors. Middle grade students enjoy the lyrics which commonly have built in similes and metaphors.

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Mary Howard
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ELA 6- Poetry Name: _____________________________

Date: ________________ Mod: _________

Figurative Language – Metaphors

A metaphor states that one thing is something else. It is a comparison, but it does NOT use
like or as to make the comparison.

For example: Her hair is silk. The sentence is comparing (or stating) that hair is silk.

Helpful Hint 1 Helpful Hint 2

'ARE' is the plural form of the verb 'IS.' An apostrophe (') shows the use of a conjunction.

For example: The girl IS going. / The girls For example: The boy's here = The boy is here
ARE going

Directions: Read the following sentences. Write an M if it is a metaphor, write an S if it is a


simile.

1. "Juliet is the sun." (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.) _______

2. Tracy felt as sick as a parrot. _______

3. Its like I’m walking on broken glass. (Jonas Brothers "SOS) ____

4. Tom is as deaf as a post. _______

5. "Life's but a walking shadow." (Shakespeare, Macbeth.)

6. She ran like the wind. _______

7. I'm as light as a feather. _______

8. "The sun's a thief." (Shakespeare, Timon of Athens.) _______

9. Jillian is the apple of her father's eye. _______

10. "Death lies upon her like an untimely frost." (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.) _______

11. My feet are as warm as toast. _______

12. "Everyday is a winding road " (Sheryl Crow, "Everyday is a winding road.") _______

13. "Here I am/ Rock you like a hurricane." (Scorpions, “Rock you like a hurricane”) _______

14. The cucumber is cool. _______


15. Your beauty shines like the sun. _______

16. "I am a rock, I am an island.”." (Simon & Garfunkel, "I am a Rock.") _______

17.‘Cause fire is the devil’s only friend. (“American Pie”, Don McLean) _______

18. James was as cool as a cucumber. _______

19. His feet are as black as coal. _______

20."It's been a hard day's night / and I've been working like a dog." (Lennon and McCartney.)

_______

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