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1、Careers and skills,Grammar and usage,Simile and metaphor,My love is like a red, red rose.,Its raining cats and dogs.,Senior citizens are respected in our country,Figurative(比喻的) language,Compared to my house, his is a palace.,（It is used to help readers imagine what is happening in a text.）,My love
2、is like a red, red rose. Robert Burns,A simile,Compared to my house, his is a palace.,A metaphor,Simile and metaphor,the most commonly used,1. Similarly, many ordinary jobs may lookdull, but they are essential as water toour society.,Read more sentences using Simile carefully,2. He loved camping, an
3、d his job was like a holiday for him.,Simile:,What is a simile?,A simile is a comparison of two different objects that are not usually thought to be similar.,What words are used in similes?,as and like.,How to make a simile effective?,Readers must be familiar with the objectsbeing compared.,More sim
4、iles for you to enjoy:,1. The old mans hair was as white as snow.,2. Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.,3. You are as blind as a bat.,5. Im not as timid as a rabbit.,4. “Mercy falls like the gentle rain from the sky upon the earth,” Portia said.,Read more sentences using Metaph
5、or carefully,As a business person, you cant be a mouse.You have to be a tiger.,You cant be a timid person. You should be a brave person.,For lawyers , a courtroom is a battlefield.,A lawyer is compared to a fighter. He must fight to win cases here.,What is a metaphor?,Metaphor is when you use two no
6、uns and compare or contrast them to one another. Unlike simile, you dont use like or as in the comparison.,Something is something.,More metaphors for you to enjoy:,All the world is a stage. Shakespeare,The world is just like a stage , putting on different plays and people in the world are actors and
7、 actresses in the stage.,I am not Angel.,I am not a merciful , kind and helpful person.,Exercises,Yang Min found an interesting poem on the internet about qualifications for different jobs. Read the poem and underline the similes and metaphors in it.,If you want to be,If you want to be a spy like Ja
8、mes Bond 007,You need to be as cool as a cucumber and as sly as a fox. and you need cast iron nerves.,simile,If you want to be a model, you need to be as tall as a tree and eat like a bird. If you want to be an actor,simile,simile,And a martial arts expert like Jackie Chan, you can not be a weed.If
9、you want to be successful like Bill Gates, you need to have a mind like a computer and be as sharp as a spear in business.,metaphor,simile,simile,If you want to be a magician like David Copperfield,You need to make people see that black is white and white is black.If you want to succeed in life,You
10、need to be as hungry as a lion.,simile,metaphor,simile,B. Yang Min wants to find out the meaning of the similes and metaphors in the poem. Help her match the similes and the meta- phors with their correct meanings.,Answers:,1f 2j 3g 4I 5c 6b 7e 8d 9a 10h,Task,Discuss in group of four and write a poem or a story or a short passage using the figurative language (simile and metaphor) we learnt today. Then share your outcome with your classmates.,Goodbye!,
