Similes and Metaphor

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Poetic devices are essentially tools that a poet uses to create rhythm, enhance a poem's meaning.

Examples: Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration

Goal

You will be able to:

• Identify the difference between a simile and a metaphor.
• create similes or metaphors and use them in sentences.

Use a simile to describe your best friend.
Example : Radha is as intelligent as Einstein.

The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the cans on the shelve.

1. Simile
2. Metaphor

As the teacher entered the room, she muttered under her breath, "This class is like a three-ring circus."

1. Simile
2. Metaphor

 The pillow was a cloud when I put my head on it after a long day.

1. Simile
2. Metaphor

The giant's steps were thunder as he ran towards Jack.

1. Simile
2. Metaphor

Let's listen to the poem bit by bit

Get ready to write down some words... 

select those you think you should know.

The Hill We Climb - Amanda Gorman

When day comes we ask ourselves,

where can we find light in this never-ending shade?

The loss we carry, a sea we must wade.

We've braved the belly of the beast,

We've learned that quiet isn't always peace, 

and the norms and notions

of what just is

isn't always just-ice.

Which two things does she
compare here?

1. water and fire
2. clear and unclear
3. day and night
4. truth and lies

And yet the dawn is ours 

before we knew it.

Somehow we do it.

Somehow we've weathered and witnessed

a nation that isn't broken,

but simply unfinished.

We the successors of a country and a time

where a skinny Black girl

descended from slaves and raised by a single mother

can dream of becoming president

only to find herself reciting for one.

What does "descended and raised" mean?

1. before and after
2. come down, come up
3. broken and healed
4. died and born

And yes we are far from polished. 

Far from pristine.

But that doesn't mean we are

striving to form a union that is perfect.

We are striving to forge a union with purpose,

to compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and conditions of man.

And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us,

but what stands before us.

"cultures, colors, characters and conditions" is an example of ...

1. assimilatie
2. assonantie
3. assassinatie
4. alliteratie

"we are far from polished and pristine"
what does this mean?

1. perfect
2. careful
3. careless
4. imperfect

We close the divide because we know, 

to put our future first,

we must first put our differences aside.

We lay down our arms 

so we can reach out our arms to one another.

We seek harm to none and harmony for all.

Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true,

that even as we grieved, we grew,

that even as we hurt, we hoped,

that even as we tired, we tried,

that we'll forever be tied together, victorious.

"We seek harm to none and harmony for all".

Which words go together?

__________     __________

__________     __________

__________     __________

Not because we will never again know defeat,

But because we will never again sow division. 

Scripture tells us to envision

that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree

and no one shall make them afraid.

If we're to live up to our own time,

then victory won't lie in the blade.

But in all the bridges we've made,

that is the promise to glade,

the hill we climb. 

If only we dare.

Which words rhyme?

"then victory won't lie in the blade"
meaning ?

1. we won't win using words
2. we won't win using our eyes
3. we won't win using leaves
4. we won't win using force

It's because being American is more than a pride we inherit, it's the past we step into and how we repair it.

We've seen a force that would shatter our nation

rather than share it.

Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy.

And this effort very nearly succeeded.

But while democracy can be periodically delayed,

it can never be permanently defeated.

In this truth, in this faith we trust.

For while we have our eyes on the future,

history has its eyes on us.

This is the era of just redemption

we feared at its inception.

We did not feel prepared to be the heirs

of such a terrifying hour

but within it we found the power

to author a new chapter.

To offer hope and laughter to ourselves.

So while once we asked,

how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe?

Now we assert,

How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?

If we merge mercy with might,

and might with right,

then love becomes our legacy,

and change our children's birthright.

So let us leave behind a country

better than the one we were left with.

Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest,

we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one.

We will rise from the gold-limbed hills of the west.

We will rise from the windswept northeast,

where our forefathers first realized revolution.

We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the 

midwestern states.

We will rise from the sunbaked south.

We will rebuild, reconcile and recover.

And every known nook of our nation and

every corner called our country,

our people diverse and beautiful will emerge,

battered and beautiful.

When day comes we step out of the shade,

aflame and unafraid,

the new dawn blooms as we free it.

For there is always light,

if only we're brave enough to see it.

If only we're brave enough to be it.

"If only we're brave enough to be it."
Be what?

1. Powerful
2. Strong
3. Light
4. Clever