Figurative Language

We began learning about figurative language today. We learned that authors use figurative language to compare two things. We focused on similes today (when authors compare two things using the words "like" or "as" and looked for examples of similes in tall tales and legends. The students discovered the following similes in our stories:

• his head looked as swollen and as orange as a jack-o-lantern
• his elbows stuck out like a grasshopper's legs
• arms flapped up and down ling wings
• black coat fluttered behind him like a sail
• hoof beats falling like a military march
• their gnarled branches almost looked like arms reaching out
• feet as big as shovels
• he looked like a scarecrow escaped from a cornfield
• neck like a turkey's
• head like a hammer
• plump as a partridge
• ripe and rosy cheeked as one of her father's peaches