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Simile Worksheets
These worksheets are to help students understand similes and practise using them.
Simile Worksheet
This collection of worksheets explores similes using 'like' or 'as'.
Simile With 'As' Worksheets
Three versions of a worksheet in which students write similes using 'as' and adjectives. The different versions contain varying amounts of space for writing similes.
Similes with As (Version 1) Similes with As (Version 2) Similes with As (Version 3)
Simile With 'As' Cloze
Cloze activity using adjective similes and 'as.'
Improving Similes
A great worksheet that examines how students can make their similes even more expressive by adding to them.
Creative Similes
Another great worksheet that examines how students can use words with multiple meanings to create interesting simile where one meaning is used to make a simile for the other meaning: He's as sharp as a razor. (Sharp/pointy is being used as a simile for sharp/smart). Some of the best and most expressive similes follow this pattern.
Ironic Similes
Yet another great worksheet that examines how students can create humorous similes to mean the opposite of what they say by using contrast as in the following: It's as clear as mud.
Animal Similes
Students fill in the blanks with animals that are commonly used in similes such as bee, bat, mouse as in 'busy as a bee', 'blind as a bat', or 'quiet as a mouse'.
A Simile Crossword
A crossword with a lot of the very common similes in English.
Simile Conversation
This three-liner comes from the basic conversations section. Students memorize the conversation and then use the patterns to describe some aliens.
Simile Flashcards
Students describe animals and objects on an alien world using 'like' constructions.
Simile Whispers: Describing an Alien
Students play the game 'Chinese whispers' to see which team can relay a description of an alien back to the teacher first. There are four aliens to be described by four teams. Teachers should post one or two copies at the front of the class and then stand at the back of the class with another copy to keep track of students' progress.
Other worksheets that introduce literary devices to students at an elementary level:
Opposites | Rhymes | Alliteration | Metaphors | Exaggerations | Synonym Worksheets
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