JANINE: Big crowd in tonight, Jeff.
JEFF: Including Bob the superfan. Bob here has never actually seen Jess perform.
JANINE: Let’s help him picture her in his head - we can use metaphors and similes.
BOB: Huh?
JANINE: Ok so a metaphor is when we say something is something completely different, to help someone understand more about it.
JEFF: So for Jess, we could say…
JANINE: She is a star!
BOTH: Woah!
JANINE: Not an actual star, Bob.
JEFF: Or we could say…
JANINE: She’s dynamite.
JEFF: Oh, he’s done it again.
JANINE: Bob, not real dynamite. For similes, we use ‘as’ or ‘like’ to compare one thing to another.
JEFF: So for Jess we could say…
JANINE: She’s as fast as a cheetah.
JEFF: Or
JANINE: As graceful as a gazelle.
JEFF: Well today it’s power lifting. Ooh, that’s bound to hurt!
JANINE: Maybe we should have mentioned she’s as feeble as a mouse?
Description
Similes and metaphors are different. A metaphor is used to describe something as if it were something else.
A simile describes something by comparing it to something else, using ‘like’ or ‘as’.
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