Week 2 Tips - Similes and Metaphors

Going by your monster descriptions, you're really getting the hang of using similes.

A quick recap:

A simile is where you say something is LIKE something else, to make your description more powerful.

Here are some great examples of similes from your monster descriptions:

'A snoggy bogie is as heavy as an outstandingly heavy African elephant.' - Lucus (Broadway Primary)

'Meet the horobbgruff troll; when he walks he sounds like a boom box and when he roars he’s louder than a lion' - Sam (Broadway Primary)

'My monster can run as fast as a cheetah with black spots.' - Anonymous, Morton Trentside.

'My monster is as tall as Haslingden High School and its claws and teeth are a sharp as one thousand pins put together.' – Abbie from Broadway School

A similar technique is the metaphor.

A metaphor is where you say that something IS something else, to make your description more powerful.

Here are some examples of metaphor:

'The monster was a raging lion that night.'

The monster wasn't actually a lion. But by reading the metaphor, you know that the monster was fierce and powerful on the night in question.

'When the little girl laughed at the tig, he felt his heart break.'

The tig's heart didn't actually break - it's still beating. But the metaphor tells us that he was very upset.

'The little boy's bedroom was a building site.'

The bedroom isn't actually a building site. But because building sites are very messy, the metaphor tells us that the boy's bedroom is very messy too.