0 / 61 0 correct 00:00

SimileSet 6

1When Debbie realizes Glenna and Maureen are going on vacation together, she compares herself to

2Her hands are as cold as the ice.

3As blind as a bat ..... is a type of .....

4What tone is the following sentence?"Oh my god, have you seen Tom's new haircut. His hair looks like lego."

5Anika, Arjun, and Benjamin were playing with a dog. They exclaimed, "Wow! This dog is as big as a horse!". What do they mean by this?

6POETIC DEVICE: "We're like two peas in a pod."

7"Do you ever feel like a plastic bagDrifting through the wind, wanting to start again?Do you ever feel, feel so paper thinLike a house of cards, one blow from caving in?, " is an example of .....

8Interpret Figurative Language Read this sentence from the story. The river was a liquid mirror of the sky. This sentence means that the river-

9Babies are gentle like a soft cotton touching your face

10"His yo-yo string had a knot as fat as a mushroom." This quote is an example of what literary device?

11Identify the type of figurative language this represents. The fluffy bed felt as soft as a cloud.

12It was a beautiful day to play outside.

13What does the unusual comparison to "gold to airy thinness beat" stress about the separation that the speaker and his beloved will endure?

14Srila Prabhupad compares sluggish people getting attracted to heaven, with an example of .....

15A simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things. The Nile river was compared to what?

16That girl is as skinny as a twig!

17What technique is used in the opening line of tShe Walks in Beauty: 'She walks in beauty, like the night'?

18She was as bright as a star in the midnight sky. *Choose the correct figure of speech.

19Smith was as mad as a hornet.

20Caution is to jeopardy as

21"The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window" is an example of what type of figurative language?

22The retina is to the eye as the ..... is to the ear.

23Determine whether the following sentence is literal or figurative: "The computer hummed like a busy office."

24Which figure of speech is the author using?"Tom and John are as different as night and day"

25My mom's smile is like a ray of sunshine.

26Gabe was the quickest runner on the team. His friend told him, "You're as fast as a cheetah!"

27They fought like cats and dogs! What does the simile mean?

28The bed is as hard as a rock

29Which type of figurative language? Mary is as cute as a kitten.

30This involves comparison of one thing with another by the use of like and as.

31Which of the following sentences contains an appositive, a simile, and a subordinating conjunction?

32Analyze the following sentence: "The thunder grumbled like an old man." What literary device is being used?

33Then musical as a seagull.It must be slender as a bell, What figure of speech is used in lines 2 and 5?

34Choose the example for figurative meaning.

35Red: blood:: sharp: .....?

36Complete the simile: When I felt embarrassed, my face turned as .....

37Why was the flower like a potion?

38Name the figurative language: "she was as happy as a clam when she won the contest."

39What is the following an example of: "You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard calling me out when I'm wounded" (Taylor Swift)?

40Select all terms that are not units within a poem's structure.

41Example: "He strutted like a rooster in a henhouse."

42Figure of explication in which two things that share at least one attribute are explicitly associated with each other; an overt comparison between two unlike things as though they were similar ..... usually with the words "like" or "as".

43The poetic device used in the tail was like a question mark is

44Select the type of figurative language used."The way she wrote was like Emily Dickinson."

45The rain tapped on the window like a friendly visitor. What literary device is used in this sentence?

46Both companies and people use social media to create an image.

47MARIA IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS A DAISY.

48LITERARY ELEMENTS / TECHNIQUES:A figure of speech comparing two unlike things using like or as.

49"I wandered lonely as a cloud ..... when all at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils."In William Wordsworth's poem Daffodils, the speaker compares the daffodils to ..... as they dance in the breeze.

50"a figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different thingsusing the words (like or as)." is a/an .....

51Explain the meaning of the figurative language sentence below.The road was as flat as a pancake.

52She was as light as a(n) .....

53What does the author mean when they say, "She is as slow as a sloth."

54Distinguish whether the following sentence is literal or figurative: "The computer screen was as bright as the sun."

55What is a figure of speech that describes something by comparing it to something else? Example: He ran like a deer.

56Pick out the simile.

57What is the purpose of using analogies in persuasive language?

58Which would be the most brilliant?

59What literary element or device is BEST illustrated in this quotation"snow whirled around us in bitter, blinding squalls, hissing like sand"

60She is as sweet as pie!

61Juliet compares Romeo to a rose in order to emphasize .....