https://padlet.com/mjlawler100/9ojko7hjexna Matthew Lawler en-us 2018-11-02 18:26:19 UTC 2026-02-03 20:16:45 UTC hello@padlet.com mjlawler100 https://padlet.com/mjlawler100/9ojko7hjexna/wish/299941740 a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid ]]> 2018-11-02 18:28:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mjlawler100/9ojko7hjexna/wish/299941740 mjlawler100 https://padlet.com/mjlawler100/9ojko7hjexna/wish/299944225 This image is an example of a simile because it is comparing the speed of the grandpa to a turtle using like or as.  

]]> 2018-11-02 18:33:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mjlawler100/9ojko7hjexna/wish/299944225 mjlawler100 https://padlet.com/mjlawler100/9ojko7hjexna/wish/299945376 She is as happy as a clam on New Years Day
He is as tall as a 6 foot 3 in tree.]]> 2018-11-02 18:36:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mjlawler100/9ojko7hjexna/wish/299945376 mjlawler100 https://padlet.com/mjlawler100/9ojko7hjexna/wish/299947409 "Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail." (from  A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)
This simile is expressing how dead the subject was, by comparing him to a door nail that has no life within it.]]> 2018-11-02 18:40:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mjlawler100/9ojko7hjexna/wish/299947409 mjlawler100 https://padlet.com/mjlawler100/9ojko7hjexna/wish/299949865 "No, but Bob has a beautiful face: like a flower.  Yeah a cauliflower."  (from a youtube clip of Norm MacDonald, [the school had the video restricted so I just wrote it])
This simile compares the likeness between Bobs face and the well known beauty of a cauliflower.]]> 2018-11-02 18:46:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mjlawler100/9ojko7hjexna/wish/299949865