The document is a PowerPoint presentation about similes. It defines a simile as a figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two different things. The presentation provides several examples of common similes using "as" and "like". It also discusses the use of similes in famous poems, including in the poem "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star". The presentation analyzes two specific similes used in the poem "Even Past Fifty" to describe a woman's view of difficulties in life and how she hides her true feelings.

1. A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION ON
SIMILE

2. NEW HIGHER SECONDARY
SCHOOL NELLIMOOD
Name : Shindu Sivan
Option : English
Candidate number :165/13376020

3. Simile

4. What is SIMILE?
• It is a figure of speech
• Used to compare two
different things
• By using the word “like” or
“as”

5. Examples
as
• Solid as a rock
• Quick as a wind
• Big as a bus
• Tall as a giraffe
• Wise as an owl
• Cold as winter
• Hot as desert
• Shiny as gold
like
• Cry like a baby
• Grow like a weed
• She smells like a flower
• She runs like a cheetah
• She swims like a dolphin
• He shouted like a horn
• He climbs like a monkey
• He swim like a fish

6. Famous Simile Poem
A simile poem that everyone may
know is Twinkle Twinkle:
“Twinkle, twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.”

7. Examples From Poems
• My LOVE is like a RED RED ROSE
_ROBERT BURNS
• I WANDERED LONELY as a CLOUD
_WORDSWORTH
• My MISTRESS EYES are nothing like the SUN
_ SHAKESPEARE

8. Robert Burns simile
“O my Luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June;
O my Luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune.”

9. Similes in the poem
EVEN PAST FIFTY
BY
SHANTA SHELKE

10. EVEN PAST FIFTY
Shanta Shelke
She’s past fifty;
yet she’s still
a little girl at heart,
for whom the house is a doll’s house,
and running the household
a childhood game.
She has travelled a long road; but her little feet
are not yet fatigued.
Catastrophes to her
are still like the evil spirits
in children’s stories
whom she fights with blades
of grass; wipes the sweat
from her brow; hits hard;
sometimes wins, sometimes loses,
her sword broken.

11. simile
CATASTROPHES TO HER
ARE STILL LIKE THE EVIL SPIRITS
IN CHILDREN’S STORIES

12. Difficult questions
she has simplified for herself;
fitted the tangle
into a simple frame;
on her face
she has made distaste smile,
like moonlight that makes everything smooth.
But sometimes totally in despair,
a flower crumpled in a fist, she
rises again, smiles, or sings to herself,
though hers is not a musical voice.
I saw her the other day
after a long time;
she talked
with her usual, irrepressible intensity;
but i, for the first time,
noted the hair fast becoming white,
noted, for the first time, and with a pang,
the hollowness of the froth
rising above the stream of her life

13. simile
• SHE HAS MADE DISTASTE SMILE,
LIKE MOONLIGHT THAT MAKES
EVERYTHING SMOOTH

14. Catastrophes to her
are still like the evil spirits
in children’s stories
The figure of speech here is simile
The woman in the poem takes her
catastropes
that is difficulties of life like
evilspirits
Her difficulty is likened to evil spirits in
children's stories

15. ‘She has made distaste smile,
Like moonlight that makes everything
smooth.’
The figure of speech here is simile.
The woman in the poem conceals her
distaste
that is surfacing in her heart.
‘She smiles , when she is not happy’.
Her smile is likened to moonlight.

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