Day: Monday
Second Semester
Date: March 11th,2013
Miss: Haneen Ramadan
Grade: Six
Name:
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Worksheet #8:
Unit 4: Inventing the Future
Figurative Language:
Metaphor and Simile.
Figurative Language: is poetic language that employs figures of speech such as metaphor,
simile, or any other figure of speech.
Figure of speech: is any way of saying something other than the ordinary way.
Metaphor: is a figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things
essentially unlike. For example: * She is an angel
* Life is a brief candle.
Simile: is a figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things
essentially unlike. The comparison is made explicit by the use of some words or phrases as like,
as, similar to, resembles, or seems.
For example: * He is brave like a lion * She is shining as a star.
 Examples of metaphor and simile:
*Her eyes are jewels sparkling in the sun. “Metaphor”
*Her eyes are as shiny as jewels in the sun. “Simile”
*The harvest moon is a great pumpkin in the sky. “Metaphor”
*The moon during harvest looks like a great pumpkin in the sky. “Simile”
DIRECTION: Circle the suitable figure of speech which every sentence employs:
1. Her home was a prison. (Metaphor, simile)
2. The teacher is busy as bee. (Metaphor, simile)
3. America is melting pot. (Metaphor, simile)
4. The bottle rolled off the table like a teardrop. (Metaphor, simile)
5. The policeman let him off with a yellow card. (Metaphor, simile)
6. The kid is cute as a kitten.( Metaphor, simile)
7. George is a sheep. (Metaphor, simile)
8. Life is like a box of chocolate. (Metaphor, simile)
9. My father is a rock. (Metaphor, simile)
10. Her shirt is as black as coal. (Metaphor, simile)
11. Her hair was as soft as a spider web. (Metaphor, simile)
12. He spilled the beans. (Metaphor, simile)
GOOD LUCK