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Article: Following footprints.(Skill: Write Similes and Metaphors)
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- WR News, Senior Edition (including Science Spin)
- Article date:
- April 24, 2009
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Scientists aren't the only ones searching for footprints. Sandy the shrew is also hunting down tracks. You can search too--for similes and metaphors. A simile compares what is similar about two things that are different. Similes make comparisons by using the words like or as. A metaphor does the same thing, but without using like or as. Use similes and metaphors to fill in the blanks in the poem below.
Examples:
Simile Metaphor
My sister was asAn army of clouds
cool as a cucumber. covered the sky.
Silly Sandy the shrew didn't know what to do; Her collection was almost complete. Over time, she'd tracked ...