Similes&Metaphors



​​ ​ ​ Be sure to underline the similes and metaphors in your poem. You must have two of each type. Survival is like life. Depending on your skill of survival you'll survive. Now if you don't have skill of survival say Good-bye. Now a sailboat has sails that will take you across the water with __ease.__ __With life it's the same if you have a__ _ __skillful life.__ __And row boats have oars that might have problems and pain.__ _ With life it's the same if you have a _ not so skillful life. _ __Survival and life are like ups and downs,__ but in the end you will have survived something. Penguino12 Ma can't pay the bills. Daddy can't find a job. I only stare out my window __watching our garden's leaves dance,__ and the old man who acts __like nothing about the Great Deppresion is nothing bad at all.__ Ma sells tomatoes one penny each, but they're small and old and money is now sparse. __When we get a penny it's like Christmas, but it's our only non-hunger ticket.__ Not like I eat much at all. ​ - ​music fan2

// **__The days pass Away Like a raindrop__.People were dieing like a snowflake one by one.__The days were long like time was frozen__.The days slipped by slowly.Pa had no hutning skills.Ma had nothing to sell anymore.We all depended on survival.__Days turned into years__.There was not much left.Everyone depended on hope.__It was a clear spring day today__.Our crops grew, we earned a few pennies.Receiving this money felt like heaven. -ConorFinn1** // // ** When you're __blood thirsty hungry__ ** // // ** __like a vampire,__ ** // // ** or if you're __day dreaming for some meat__ ** // // ** __just the excact opposite of a vegetarian,__ ** // // ** when you want explosion __in your mouth__ ** // // ** __because you will die if you don't get some,__ ** // // ** when you're __as hungry for bear__ ** // // ** __for some salmon,__ ** // // ** that's when you know you're barley surviving.-gummybear23 ** // ​__Thinking of sunlight,dreaming of food,__ __​__ ​__like plants begging for water and sun__. ​ ​Longer years, longer days, nothing changed. __Water stops like animals die.__ More and more time passes. There is yet to come any rain nor snow__. The days were finally crying with rain__. No ​more dust, everything is gone. __Cheering with big smiles on our face__, nothing can bring us down. -bananasrcool13

 Last night, The sirens went off, The wind blew, __The rain pounded us Like water from a fire hose.__ All five of us, __Huddled together like Newborn puppies All around our new mama.__ It was hard, All of us squeezing together In a tiny half bathroom. As we emerged From the bathroom, Outside, we were greeted By the sight of __A town Messier than a little child's bedroom, Full buildings, now half buildings.__ The trees in backyards, Were tossed around More than a game of Pick-up-sticks, __And the clouds grayer Than the smoke from a factory.__ It felt like this whole Day was just so dull and Lifeless. -VOLLEYBALLROX12  I travel through the desert with only one goal in my mind: to survive. It is *as hot as fire* in the mornings and afternoons, with *nights as cold as ice*. I travel with two friends and four camels. It is impossible to stay covered from the *ball of flames* high above our heads. The only time we ever get rain, it goes straight into the ground that very day. It's almost like *dry rain*. We travel all day with no way of knowing were we a re, looking for hope of a better life. -shinycolors