2. What IS a Simile Anyway? My little brother is as clumsy as a bull in a china shop when he runs through my room! Mary Ellen acts like a big baby when she doesn’t get her way. The sunset looks like a dazzling watercolor painting. So what’s a simile?
4. AMY is as light on her feet as a ballet dancer. You get a picture of a dancer’s graceful movements in your mind. Whoever she is, you know she must be graceful.
5. His grin was as toothy as a great white shark’s. It’s easy to picture a toothy smile when it’s compared to a shark’s. Guess who is really good at similes…
6. RoaldDahl His room was as bare as a prison cell. He was now lying full length on the ground with his head out over the river, lapping up chocolate like a dog. She was like a great white, soggy overboiled cabbage. His breath smelled like air in an old cellar. Aunt Sponge, as fat and pulpy as a jellyfish.
7. It Helps Paint a Picture There were many bright stars in the sky. OR The stars twinkled in the sky like the wings of thousands of fairies.
8. It Helps Paint a Picture The concert was boring. OR The concert was as interesting as watching paint dry.
9. It Helps Paint a Picture The bologna sandwich was gross. OR The bologna sandwich in the back corner of the refrigerator was like a nightmare.
10. It Helps Paint a Picture The moldy potato stinks. OR The moldy potato smelled like a dead skunk that had been rotting under the porch for weeks.
11. Choose a character in your story Let’s create a simile using one of your characters. Describe… Looks Actions Feelings
