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Simile or cliché?

Light as a feather is a simile (a comparative phrase that uses like or as) - but because it's used so much, it's a bit of a cliché. In this language arts worksheet, your child will come up with original comparisons for adjectives, verbs, and nouns and write them as similes.
READING | GRADE: 4th, 5th
Simile or cliché? PDF Worksheet: 4th grade, 5th grade Reading
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Skills

Building vocabulary, figurative language, similes and metaphors, synonyms

Common Core Standards: Grade 4 Language, Grade 5 Language, Grade 5 Reading: Literature

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.5, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.5, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.4

This worksheet originally published in English Made Easy Key Stage 2 for ages 10 to 11 by © Dorling Kindersley Limited.

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