Similes & Metaphors

Description

Understand and identify similes (comparisons using like or as) and metaphors (direct comparisons stating something is something else) in texts, explaining how each creates imagery and conveys meaning

Mastery Evidence

• ✓ Identify similes in a text by locating comparisons using 'like' or 'as' and explain what two things are being compared and what quality is highlighted, e.g. 'The snow was like a white blanket'
• ✓ Identify metaphors in a text and explain the implied comparison, e.g. in 'Time is a thief', explain that time is compared to a thief because it takes things away
• ✓ Explain how a simile or metaphor in a poem or story creates a particular image or feeling for the reader that a literal description would not achieve