SIMILES

A way you to improve your word choice!

WHAT IS A SIMILE ANYWAY?

My little brother is as clumsy as a bull in a china shop when he runs through my room!

Mary Ellen acts like a big baby when she doesn’t get her way.

The sunset looks like a dazzling watercolor painting.

So what’s a simile?

SIMILES, SIMILES, SIMILES

Similes compare using the words…

LIKE AS

AMY IS AS LIGHT ON HER FEET AS A BALLET DANCER.

You get a picture of a dancer’s graceful movements in your mind.

Whoever she is, you know she must be graceful.

HIS GRIN WAS AS TOOTHY AS A GREAT WHITE SHARK’S. It’s easy to picture

a toothy smile when it’s compared to a shark’s.

Guess who is really good at similes…

ROALD DAHL His room was as bare as a prison cell.

He was now lying full length on the ground with his head out over the river, lapping up chocolate like a dog.

She was like a great white, soggy overboiled cabbage.

His breath smelled like air in an old cellar.

Aunt Sponge, as fat and pulpy as a jellyfish.

IT HELPS PAINT A PICTURE

There were many bright stars in the sky.

OR

The stars twinkled in the sky like the wings of thousands of fairies.

IT HELPS PAINT A PICTURE

The concert was boring.

OR

The concert was as interesting as watching paint dry.

IT HELPS PAINT A PICTURE

The bologna sandwich was gross.

OR

The bologna sandwich in the back corner of the refrigerator was like a nightmare.

IT HELPS PAINT A PICTURE The moldy potato stinks.

OR

The moldy potato smelled like a dead skunk that had been rotting under the porch for weeks.

CHOOSE A CHARACTER IN YOUR STORY Let’s create a simile using one of your

characters.

Describe…LooksActionsFeelings

EXAMPLES:

As bald as a As big as a As sharp as a As bright as a As mad as a As quick as a As slow as As strong as As tough as

He was like a It sounded like A voice like a Flew like a Swam like a Walks like a Ran like a Tasted like Eats like a Fought like