This document contains several examples of similes used to compare things. It includes common similes like "hungry as a horse", "happy as a clam", and "sneaky as a snake". It also contains the well-known simile from the nursery rhyme "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" that compares a star to "a diamond in the sky". Finally, it features a poem titled "Greater Than That" that uses similes such as comparing a caged bird to "a bruised, little bird" and a captive lion to "a captive, collared lion".
2. I am hungry as a horse.
You run like a rabbit.
She is happy as a clam.
He is sneaky as a snake.
3. Famous simile poem:
• “Twinkle, twinkle little star,
• How I wonder what you are
• Up above the world so high,
• Like a diamond in the sky.”
• -> how do you know that this is a simile?
4. Greater Than That
(can you spot the similes?)
“Peering through the drape I’m pacin’ and dyin’
Of my synthetic cell, In a manmade den.
How I long to escape For an eagle was not meant
This manufactured hell. To be locked in a cage,
Like a bruised, little bird Its life to be spent
Too confused to fly, Like a picture on a page.
I’m trapped, in a word, And when a mighty lion,
So confined am I. In truth, is but a cat,
A captive, collared lion It will spend its time tryin’
Alone in its pen, To be greater than that.”
