Describe the Grand Canyon Using a Simile or Metaphor

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----- The Different colors of the Grand canyon are due to the different Strata of rocks that been exposed during the 5 to 6 million year history of the Grand Canyon.

. Both a simile and a metaphor. I have included many similes from A Sound of Thunder You will want to search the text yourself and see what else you can find. In his novel Cocktail Time PG.

Some Layers are Granite some. The stream is a fish swimming in between the rocks. YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE.

The river is like a silver ribbon laid across the land. The hug was like a soft blanket wrapping Simone in warmth. This is an example of a simile.

Identify and Define the Terms. Parts of the canyon are more than 30 kilometers wide and. His smile was the Grand Canyon.

This is still a comparison only now it no longer uses like or as The mans smile was so big it WAS the Grand Canyon. His smile was as wide as the Grand Canyon. Simile and metaphor are both forms of analogy the illustration of one idea by a more familiar or accessible idea that is in some way parallel.

I like to think of a metaphor as a stronger simile. Onomatopoeia The kitten mewed loudly when the little girl picked it up. The whirlpool raged angrily lie a hippo.

Because metaphors are statements of being whereas similes are statements of likeness a metaphor can rely on visual descriptions that arent bound by the laws of logic. Learn vocabulary terms and more with flashcards games and other study tools. Grand Canyon successfully recreates the random ways in which individuals make choices and it captures the sense of menace and disintegration that permeate when human emotions take into control these decisions.

A face like the moon. This example is a simple analogy. Long four-story narrow fertile wide humid immense man-made junk-metal tight tortuous craggy red black three-story bizarre fungal straight and unnatural perfectly straight and unnatural fairly deep and narrow colossal vertical great mid-atlantic tight remote deepest underwater deep and heavily wooded awful bottomless hot shallow whole.

An analogy is a longer comparison that provides an explanation behind why the two items are compared. Metaphor The wet shoes were heavy weights on his feet. It stretches for 450 kilometers.

With a metaphor the two things being compared are so much alike that they no longer are like something but they are something. A simile is a comparison using the words like or as and is typically a simple statement. Alliteration Terri tore the tags off of her t-shirt when she got home.

Begin your lessons on metaphors and similes for kids and students of any age by defining figurative language similes and metaphors. There is no figure of speech in that sentence. Simile My brother is as quiet as a mouse.

Personification The tree shook its branches angrily. Its known as a stated comparison because the words like or as are often used when drawing the connection. The Grand Canyon is one of the seven natural wonders of the world and one of the largest canyons on Earth.

Write four sentences to describe this picture. Expectations Simile It is almost impossible to gaze directly at the Grand Canyon and see it for what it is. The speaker is using simile to compare how writing a book of poetry is similar to dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Then identify the kind you use. The rampaging river moves swiftly stealing anything in its path. Things - English.

It is almost impossible because the Grand Canyon the thing as it is has been appropriated by the symbolic complex which has already been formed in. Log in Sign up. Writing a book of poetry to pass the message to other people is like dropping a rose.

Figurative language describes something in a creative way. Use any of the following types of figurative language. Big dramatic events such as.

Similes and metaphors are a type of figurative language. Start studying Metaphor or Simile. Similes are comparisons using like or as.

He was as brave as a lion She was as quick as a fox Or taking it a step further His heart was as black as coal Her smile was as big as the grand canyon. The crystal clear waterfall is like a giant shower. I was lost in a sea of nameless faces.

Alliteration Hyperbole Onomatopoeia Simile Metaphor Idiom Personification 1 _____ Type. His smile was as wide as the Grand Canyon. An elephant can be marble a boy can be ivy and my cat is and always will be a bulldozer.

The waterfall is like a baby taking his first step but failing. Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence.

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