Name: _Tianna Jones
Simile Worksheet 1
Directions: Identify the two things that are being compared in each simile and explain what the
simile is expressing in literal language.
Simile: a comparison between two different things using the word "like" or "as."
Example: Eyes full of laughter, neck and shoulders bare, / A thin slip of a girl, like a new moon,
A girl
(is/are) being compared to
In literal language this means...
This means that the girl is very skinny.
1. Talk of your cold, through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail.
a new moon
