figurative language with Harry Potter

1. figurative languagewith Harry Potter

2. Daniel Radcliffe has brown hair, green eyes, and a nice smile. OR • Daniel has thick, shaggy, brown hair. • His eyes are as green as emeralds. • He looks like he could be your best friend.

3. He looks scared. OR He looks likes he has seen a ghost.

4. This witch has a big black hat. She looks very serious. OR • With a crooked black hat upon her head, this witch glares down at you like a tiger about to pounce. • This woman is a volcano of fury about to explode.

5. This woman is wearing a pink outfit, and she looks mean. OR • This woman looks like a big pink evil cream puff.

6. She is running away from a monster. OR • She is running like the wind from the fiery monster attempting to engulf her with flames from hell.

7. Voldemort is bald and ugly. OR • Voldemort looks like a snake. / He is a snake. • His bald head looks like the moon shining at midnight. • His nose is as flat as a pancake. • His eyes are bulging out of his head.

8. What is a metaphor? • a way of describing something by comparing it to something else that has similar qualities, without using the words “like” or “as” What is a simile? • an expression that describes something by comparing it with something else, using the words “as” or “like”

9. When do you use a metaphor and when a simile? • There are no rules. • You decide on whether to use a metaphor or a simile depending on what you want to say.

10. Using figurative language • Write one sentence with a metaphor or simile about the person you are writing about in your descriptive paragraph. • Read it to the class.