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Date
SIMILE: WILLOW AND GINKGO / INTRODUCTION TO POETRY
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Text Analysis
METAPHOR AND SIMILE
In a figure of speech, words are used in an imaginative way to communicate
meaning beyond their strict definition. Figures of speech include
• Similes, which use like or as to compare two unlike things. For example: The
frozen lake is like glass.
• Metaphors, which make comparisons without the words like or as. For
example: All the world is a stage.
Directions: Use the charts to record similes and metaphors from each poem. For
each comparison, write line numbers, what is being described, what it is being
compared to, and whether the comparison is a simile or metaphor. An example has
been done for you.
“Simile: Willow & Ginkgo”
Line(s)
What Is Being Described
What It Is Compared To
Simile or
Metaphor
“Introduction to Poetry”
Line(s)
What Is Being Described
What It Is Compared To
Simile or
Metaphor
1–3
Poem
color slide
Simile
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Unit 5
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