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Last week we worked personification and anthropomorphism. So this week we’re going to go through the list until we run out of time: Simile and Metaphor. We’ll work these two together like they do in English classes. 

What is a simile? A simile is a phrase or comparison to describe something. They’re spotted when you see the word “like” or “as” to create the comparison.

Metaphors, on the other hand, are figures of speech that describe something through comparison without using “like” or “as.”  

• You act like a dog | You ain’t nothin but a hound dog
• Life is like a box of chocolates  |  Life is a box of chocolates
• Like the back of my hand  |  better than I know myself
• She walks in beauty like the night  |  Hela is night and darkness and fear.
• I wandered lonely as a cloud  |  I am a feather on the breeze.
• What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?  |  Our dreams had pruned.

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