Similes Starters:

(using like or as to compare unlike things)

The smell in the football locker room was like ________________________.
My fingers turned the page of the note like ___________________________.
The _____________________________ overtook the running man.
The _________________________________ was as beautiful as
________________________________.
The boy ___________________ the _________________ like it is a hot pan.
The _________________________on the ___________________________
was as refreshing as a spray of cool water on a hot August day.
I ____________________________ to ____________________ like a pirate
forced to walk the plank.
The _____________________________ who had a neck like an old
_______________________________ pounded the counter with authority.
The _____________________s admiration for the _____________________
was as _________________________ as the _________________________.
The quick change in the ______________________________ was like a
______________________________ in the _________________________.

Metaphors starters:
(comparing unlike things by saying one if the other)
Her home was her jail.
Her ____________________ was her ________________________.
The zoo was heaven on earth.
The __________________________ was ___________________ on earth.
The abandoned book was the lonely kid no one wants on their team.
The ________________________ was the __________________ on the
_____________________.
The alley was the classroom where the bully learned his craft to terrorize.
The __________________ was the ____________________ where the
_________________ learned to ________________________.
The science experiment was a volcano of noise and smoke.
The ______________________ was a ______________________ of
_______________________.
The screech of the cat fight was a freight train to the pain in my head.
The _____________________ of the ___________________________ was a
__________________________ to the ________________________.
Sacrifice is love.
_______________________ is _________________________.
The giraffes neck was a ladder that stretched to the trees.
The ____________ _________________ was a _______________________
that______________________ to the __________________________.

Personification Starters:
(Giving human like characteristics to non human things)
The boys heart sang when he saw his beautiful prom date.
The boys _______________ ______________________ when he saw
_______________________.
The grass danced back and forth in the blowing wind.
The ___________________ _______________________ back and forth in
the ____________________________.
The stars blinked through the dark night.
The _________________ ______________________ through the
__________________ night.
The windows of the old haunted house stared out at the trick or treaters.
The _________________ of the ______________________ stared out at
______________________________.
The trees sang as the wind whipped through their leaves.
The ________________ ____________________ as the
__________________________ _______________________.
Jealous love grabs and tears the hearts of young lovers.
_____________________ ____________________ _________________ and
____________________ of _________________________.
The cobwebs begged to be dusted.
The ________________ begged to be ________________________.
The moon peeked shyly through the clouds.
The ____________________ peeked __________________ through
____________________.