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Simile Worksheet 2 

Directions: Identify the two things that are being compared in each simile and explain what the simile is expressing in literal language.

Simile: a comparison between two different things using the word “like” or “as.”

Example:  Those eyes that cut me to the bone, and pierced my marrow like cold steel.

___________Eyes_____________  (is / are) being compared to _________cold steel_________

In literal language this means...

This means that the speaker was deeply affected by the subject’s gaze.

1.  The city streets were twanging like a harp.

___________________________  (is / are) being compared to ___________________________  

In literal language this means...

2.  His droll little mouth was drawn up and the beard on his chin was as white as the snow.

___________________________  (is / are) being compared to ___________________________  

In literal language this means...

3. When the teacher gets cross, and the dimples goes in 
She hollers out, "Next!" as sharp as a pin,

___________________________  (is / are) being compared to ___________________________  

In literal language this means...

4. A boy is selling papers, I smell them: clean and new from the press. They are fresh like the air.

___________________________  (is / are) being compared to ___________________________  

In literal language this means...

5.  Your day lingers only like the tones of a wind-lyre in a twilit room.

___________________________  (is / are) being compared to ___________________________  

In literal language this means...

6. The smith, a mighty man is he, with large and sinewy hands;
And the muscles of his brawny arms are strong as iron bands.

___________________________  (is / are) being compared to ___________________________  

In literal language this means...

7. I wish that I could go through the red doors and put off my shame like shoes in the porch

___________________________  (is / are) being compared to ___________________________  

In literal language this means...

8. The four strings of his violin were spinning like bees on a day in spring.

___________________________  (is / are) being compared to ___________________________  

In literal language this means...

9.  A wide gash of red lantern-light cleft like a blade into the gloom.

___________________________  (is / are) being compared to ___________________________  

In literal language this means...

10.  The windmills, like great sunflowers of steel,
Lift themselves proudly over the straggling houses;

___________________________  (is / are) being compared to ___________________________  

In literal language this means...