Simile
A simile is a comparison of two unlike things that uses the words like or as in the comparison.
Examine the pictures below carefully.
How would you describe the old shoe?
What would it be like to wear that shoe for a day?
What do that old shoe and the dog have in common?
Examine the pictures below carefully.
How would you describe the old shoe?
What would it be like to wear that shoe for a day?
What do that old shoe and the dog have in common?
Now look at the way Jerry Spinelli described the old shoe using a simile:
. . . they say: a scraggly little kid jogging toward them, the soles of both sneakers hanging by their hinges and flopping open like dog tongues each time they came up from the pavement.
Can you see these sneakers on this kid?
. . . they say: a scraggly little kid jogging toward them, the soles of both sneakers hanging by their hinges and flopping open like dog tongues each time they came up from the pavement.
Can you see these sneakers on this kid?