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English 17 Public

metaphors and similes

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as light as a ..............

feather

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as fast as ............

lightning

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as dry as a ..........

bone

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as happy as a ............

CLAM

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What metaphor do you know for when someone is clumsy?

to have BUTTER FINGERS

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What metaphor do you know for when you want to say you're listening very carefully?

i'm all ears

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What metaphor do we use to say that someone is really important to us?

you're the apple of my eye

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use a metaphor do describe this image

a BLANKET OF SNOW covered the ground

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What metaphor do we use to say that someone is giving us a lot of presents?

They're SHOWOERING US WITH GIFTS

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when we're having fun and don't pay attention to time, we usually say .

TIME FLIES

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What metaphor do we use to say that someone is in serious trouble?

THEY ARE IN HOT WATER

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What metaphor do we use to say that someone it trying to TRICK us by telling us lies?

they are pulling the wool over our eyes

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swim like a ........, METAHOR OR SIMILE?

FISH, SIMILE

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METAHOR OR SIMILE? She was caught red-handed while she was trying to rob the bank.

METAPHOR

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If we say that something is as dead as a dodo, did we use METAHOR OR SIMILE? What does this mean?

simile

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as nutty as a ............ means what? Is it a metaphor?

No, it's a SIMILE. It means to be quite odd, strange or silly.

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