U3: Simile or Metaphor
Underline the similes/metaphors in each of the sentences below and identify whether they are similes or metaphors.
No. | Sentences | Simile or Metaphor |
1. | The pirate had manners like a savage. | |
2. | The Captain’s salt-worn face was as rough as the barnacles crusting the hull of his ship. | |
3. | Jill was as white as a ghost when she saw the pirate-ship approaching. | |
4. | Trapped in a dead calm, the ship’s sails hung as limp and useless as patched socks hanging from a clothesline. | |
5. | The navy patrol prowls for pirates in the region and makes sure the crew is ever ready to roar into action. | |
6. | Rain pelted the men aboard the ship, an angry lashing of tears from an unforgiving sea mistress. | |
7. | The crew feared their captain as he was tough as nails and would spare no one who disobeyed his orders. | |
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