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There’s Something Fishy About Using Metaphors

There’s Something Fishy About Using Metaphors. By: Sherry Woods. Using Metaphors. Writers use metaphors when they want to compare one thing or idea to another to suggest they are alike . However , metaphors describe without using the words like or as to compare.

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There’s Something Fishy About Using Metaphors

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  1. There’s Something Fishy About Using Metaphors By: Sherry Woods

  2. Using Metaphors Writers use metaphors when they want to compare one thing or idea to another to suggest they arealike. However, metaphors describe without using the words like or as to compare.

  3. Metaphors can bring your writing to life. They can make your descriptions more vivid. For example,“She had a nice smile,” is not a very interesting description to a writer’s audience. However, if you say, “ Her smile was a rainbow of happiness,” it paints a vivid picture in the reader’s mind.

  4. What is a Metaphor? • A metaphor makes comparisons between two unlike things, without using like or as. • Many times metaphors say that one thingisanother. • Metaphors often compare things so that readers can imagine them in a certain way or make a picture in their minds when they are reading.

  5. A metaphor is a way of describing something by calling it something else. • The mosquitoes were tiny monsters trying to steal his blood. • Music is my best friend. • Her eyes are stars that glow in the night. • His teeth are white pearls. • The classroom was a three-ring circus.

  6. Circle the two things being compared in the metaphors below. • My mouth is a parched desert. • The kitten was a brave soldier scratching the dog. • Sarah is a breath of fresh air. • The harvest moon is a great pumpkin in the sky. • My legs were rubber from standing in the rocking boat. • The track star is a cheetah racing to the finish line. • The raccoon was a masked bandit in night. • Pelicans were torpedoes diving for fish.

  7. Create a metaphor about the fish on this page.*Remember that you cannot use like or as in a metaphor. The fish is ________________________. Fish are___________________________. The fish were______________________.

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