The Unsinkable Ship

Figure of speech 'Simile'

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Teacher: Try to find words related to sea from the text and arrange them alphabetically. tea: ship, sail, voyage, Atlantic Ocean, Passengers, floating, Sink, life-boats, journey, ice-bergs, drowned, Submarine, Ocean, depth. Tea: Alphabetical arrangement – Stu: Atlantic, depth, drowned, floating, ice-bergs, journey, life–boats, ocean, passengers, sail, ship, submarine, voyage. Teacher: Well done! Now let’s learn some more facts about the figure of speech ‘Simile’. See this sentence. She was as tall as a building with fifteen storeys. Here she means (the Titanic) is compared with a building of fifteen storeys. You know that when a comparison is made between two objects of different kinds it is called simile. A simile is introduced by the word ‘as ---- as or like. Now let’s frame some sentences using the construction. -------as------- Student: 1) The girl was as pretty as a flower. 2) The cake was as hard as a rock. 3) The boy was as innocent as a baby. 4) Rahul is as funny as a clown. 5) Sameer is as tall as a giraffe. Teacher: Very good!