Students - we have had a great time creating similes - comparrisons using the words like or as. We discovered it is sometimes simply not enough (or as fun) to write simple similes (The cat is as black as the night). It is much more effective (and fun!) to extend similes to add a bit more description (The cat is as black as a moonless night in the middle of January).
Students, here is your challenge. When you come across a well written simile - either in you reading, or one you've written, please add it to our classroom blog. Be sure to give the author credit. Let's see how many fabulous similes we can find.
They grow up so fast!
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Fate is like a strange, unpopular restarant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
- Lemony Snicket
What are your feeling about fate?
Here's another from Lemony Snicket:
The quoting of an aphorism,
like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is aobut to happen.
What is an aphorism?
Can you tell by the text? Do you need to look it up in the dictionary? Let me know what you think.
Water is like a determined horse with its rider pushing down whatever is in its way, never daring to stop.
This is a great simile RKB! Who is the author, and what is the title? Have you ever thought of water in this way? I've seen water in a rush to get to the bottom of a hill, taking everything in its path. It is both dangerous and beautiful at the same time - Kind of like a rider on a horse racing downhill too fast to stop. What are you thinking?
I found a simile when I was reading tonight. My simile
was "headlights showed,like fingers probing the night." The book I'm reading is "Inkheart".
a cactus is like a person, stretching its arms out wide, as if to grab someone or something.
my own simile
the simile on the blog about the water was my own simile.
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