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Learning to use similes is as easy as pie.
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Language can be a great tool for conveying what you want to say. It's
- 00:07
almost as good as wildly uncoordinated hand gestures. Saw a cute dog on the [ dog on a leash]
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way home from school? Well a certain combination of words can help you
- 00:15
communicate your findings or feelings to someone else. The word dog might not be
- 00:20
quite as cute as the actual dog, but well close enough. however sometimes we want [dog on a leash]
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to move beyond the literal meanings of words to spice up our descriptions. We
- 00:30
happen to have tools at our disposal to do just that, and one of them is called
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simile. Well, similes are a kind of figurative language, the use of words to [tools shown]
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convey a meaning other than a purely literal meaning. Might seem like kind of
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a weird idea. After all stop signs wouldn't be that useful if stop meant to [man holds stop sign]
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go or something totally random like you know, banana.
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well figurative language is mostly useful when we're trying to make [colorful definitions]
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descriptions more vivid. Sure you could say it was cold outside but to really
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hammer home just how cold it was you can use figurative language and say" it was
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so cold outside that my feet felt like blocks of ice". Well we're not literally [snowy scene shown]
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saying that our feet felt like blocks of ice people, after all if they did they'd
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probably be pretty numb anyway, and then fall off. We just mean that it's really
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really cold out which is good for our sentence and even better for our feet. [people walk down the street as it snows]
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similes are a particular kind of figurative language. A simile compares
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one thing to something else using either the word like, or as. Now whether you
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realize it or not when we were talking about how our feet felt like blocks of
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ice we were using a simile. Not only were we comparing the coldness of our feet to
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the coldness of blocks of ice but we also connected these two different ideas [snowy forest shown]
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with the word like. Having ticked both of our boxes we definitely have a simile on
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our hands. We encounter tons of similes in our day to day, life probably without
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even realizing. It ever hear someone say that task is as easy as pie? Well since [busy street shown]
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they're comparing one task to the task of eating pie while using the word as
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they're definitely in simile City, unless they were literally talking about eating
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pie which, for the record it is pretty easy. Stopping is the hard part. [man eats pie]
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