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Pale as a ghost!
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Popular SimilesCan you guess?
As black as...As light as a... As clean as a...As quick as a... As hungry as a...As proud as a...As sharp as a...As heavy as...Like a bull in a..
You can do better…You can do better…
Those were “third-grade” similes.
As black as night
Let’s try to elongate them…
Be creative in yourchoice of
comparison
_________ is like _________ when _________ (Obj. 1) (Obj. 2) (this happens…)
Being stood up is like being the last fruit on the tree, Left to wither through the winter
Feeling angry is like carrying a volcano in the pit of your stomach that threatens to erupt at any moment
The leaves fell from the tree like a thousand paratroopersLeaping into battle behind enemy lines
The class was as boring as counting the perforations in a golf ball
Your Turn!
Column IIas black as...as scary as a... as mean as a...as hungry as a...as ugly as a...as sneaky as...
Column 1The cat wasThe ghost wasThe pumpkin was The witch was The goblin was The moon
Chose one from each column to help start your simile.
The tree was like nails on a chalkboard when it scratched on my window.
A Simile poemBy
Stanley Cook
Like the white curls from a gigantic beardDrifting across the barber’s shop floor
In the breeze from the open door;Like the broken parts of the ice floe
Afloat on the blue of the ocean,Drifting southward from the Pole;Like a heavily laden treasure fleet
In a light wind on the calm sea,Hardly moving with all sails set;
Like suds of foam from the waterfallThat lathers the rocks at its foot,
Gliding over a tranquil pool;Like wool from a fleece,Like smoke from a fire,Like islands in the sky.
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Like the white curls from a gigantic beardDrifting across the barber’s shop floor
In the breeze from the open door;Like the broken parts of the ice floe
Afloat on the blue of the ocean,Drifting southward from the Pole;Like a heavily laden treasure fleet
In a light wind on the calm sea,Hardly moving with all sails set;
Like suds of foam from the waterfallThat lathers the rocks at its foot,
Gliding over a tranquil pool;Like wool from a fleece,Like smoke from a fire,Like islands in the sky.
Name the Title - D.H. Lawrence
Like a glove, a black glove thrown up at the light, And falling back
Wings like bits of umbrella
Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags
And grinning in their sleep
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Which would you be if you were
a…
…season?
Why?
…animal?
Why?
…musical instrument?
Why?
…piece of furniture?
Why?
Who am I?An owl staring into the
darkness,
A dramatic orchestral movement
And the sky just after a storm.
A swirling black cloak
A lightning scar.
How is a wave also a mountain?
Hokusai – ‘The Wave’
How is a skater also the earth in its
orbit?
Ted Hughes
With arms swinging, a tremendous skater
On the flimsy ice of space,Is the earth leaning into its
curve -
Norman Nicholson
And chiselled clear on stoneA spider-web of shell,
The thumb print of the sea.
May Swenson
On silent hingesOpen-folds her wingsApplauding hands.
Phoebe Hesketh
Giraffe-tall, gormless somehow,Heads hangingOver the next garden.
Gareth Owen
BoredomIsCloudsBlack as old slateChucking rain straightOn our Housing EstateAll greyDay long.
Your TurnUse a metaphor to describe one of the following:
•A spider is a…•An owl is a…•A shadow is a…•Fog is a…•A werewolf is a…
The shadow was a hunter as it followed behind me.
-Jessica Ameter
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The angry clouds marched across the sky.
The lonely owl cried out in the night.
The hungry chainsaw growled loudly.
The stubborn dense fog swallowed us.
The evening stars winked at me from the sky.
Which is the grumpiest?
The grumpy old chair groaned as I sat down.
Who is in charge?
The weary grandfather clock reluctantly swung its pendulum. -Taeyoung Hwang
Which is the wisest?
The plant sat in Zen on the table looking to find inner peace.
He who owns the whistle, rules the worldBy Roger McGough
In the playgroundKids divebomb, cornerAt Silverstone or execute Traitors. Armed with my Acme ThundererI step outside,Take a deep breathAnd bring the worldTo a standstill.
January wind and the sunPlaying truant again.Rain beginning to scratchIts fingernails acrossThe blackboard sky
He who owns the whistle, rules the worldBy Roger McGough
In the playgroundKids divebomb, cornerAt Silverstone or execute Traitors. Armed with my Acme ThundererI step outside,Take a deep breathAnd bring the worldTo a standstill.
January wind and the sunPlaying truant again.Rain beginning to scratchIts fingernails acrossThe blackboard sky
The MoonBy Percy Shelley
AND, like a dying lady lean and pale, Who totters forth, wrapp'd in a gauzy veil, Out of her chamber, led by the insane And feeble wanderings of her fading brain, The moon arose up in the murky east, A white and shapeless mass.
Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth, And ever changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?
The MoonBy Percy Shelley
Speaking to the
moon as if it were a person.
Asking if it is tired.
Your TurnUse personification to bring one of the following to life:
What did the object DO?
•The Snickers bar…•The Jack o’ Lantern…•The moon…•The fog…•The night…
The fog blindfolded me with its misty hands.
-Thomas Valenza
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