Similes and Metaphors: What Is Being Compared? Worksheet Download
This language arts worksheet helps students look closely at similes and metaphors. For each sentence, students choose which two things the writer is comparing from four pairs.
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Similes and Metaphors: What Is Being Compared?
Students read sentences with a simile or metaphor and choose the two things being compared.
About this worksheet
Students read sentences with a simile or metaphor and choose the two things being compared.
Student objectives
- Find the two things compared in a simile or metaphor
- Tell the subject of a comparison from what it is compared to
- Read similes and metaphors closely
- Explain why a writer chose a comparison
Everyday practice
- Understanding what a poem compares the moon to
- Noticing comparisons in a favorite song
- Explaining a comparison a teacher made in class
- Spotting comparisons in advertisements