Use figurative language in writing

What you'll learn

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   Imagine you're eating a 🍪 that's so hard it feels like a rock! That's figurative language — saying something IS like something else to make a picture in your reader's head.

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   If I say 'The cookie was a rock,' do I mean it's really a rock from the ground?

3. 3

   Let's write a simile together. A simile uses 'like' or 'as' to compare two things.

4. 4

   Drag the words to build a simile about a lion 🦁.

5. 5

   Which of these is a simile?

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   Now try a metaphor — it says something IS something else, without 'like' or 'as'.

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   Which is a metaphor — saying something IS something else?