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Improvingsimiles

The document discusses improving similes by thinking of something noisier than an elephant for describing a noisy kid, such as "a herd of elephants". It also provides an example of improving a simile about something being as old as a pharaoh by making it as old as the pharaoh's grandmother. The document encourages improving other similes like making something smellier than socks, more dangerous than a shark, and colder than a milkshake.

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Improvingsimiles

The document discusses improving similes by thinking of something noisier than an elephant for describing a noisy kid, such as "a herd of elephants". It also provides an example of improving a simile about something being as old as a pharaoh by making it as old as the pharaoh's grandmother. The document encourages improving other similes like making something smellier than socks, more dangerous than a shark, and colder than a milkshake.

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Improving Similes

If you want to say a kid is very noisy you can


say:
He is as noisy as an elephant.
That is an ok simile, but we can improve it by
thinking of something even noisier than an
elephant. Well, what is noisier than an elephant?
A whole herd of elephants. And so a better simile
might be:

He is as noisy as a herd of elephants.


If you want to say something is old you could say:
It's as old as the pharaoh.
Some pharaohs are 5000 years old after all. But, how
can we improve that? By thinking of someone even
older than the pharaoh like the pharaoh's grandmother.
So we can improve this simile like this:

It's as old as the pharaoh's grandmother.


Try to improve the following similes.
It's as smelly as socks.

It's as dangerous as a shark.

It's as cold as a milkshake.

2009 Lanternfish ESL at www.bogglesworldesl.com

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