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GCSE English Practice Test: Similes - Figurative Language Using The Word Like Or As
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Like metaphors, similes are examples of figurative language. A simile explicitly compares one thing to something else, often naming the quality which makes the two separate things alike (i.e. 'She is as fierce as a tiger').

The key words which you will find in similes are 'as' and 'like'.

GCSE English Practice Test: Similes - Figurative Language Using The Word Like Or As
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1. Which of the following lines from U.A. Fanthorpe's poem, 'Men on Allotments', includes a simile?
2. Which of the following lines from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', contains a simile?
3. Which of the following lines from Edwin Muir's poem, 'The Horses', includes a simile?
4. Which of the following lines from Dahlia Ravikovich's poem, 'The Blue West', includes a simile?
5. Which of the following lines from Robert Frost's poem, 'Gathering Leaves', contains a simile?
6. Which of the following lines from Theodore Roethke's poem, 'The Visitant', includes a simile?
7. Which of the following lines from W.E. Henley's poem, 'Invictus', includes a simile?
8. Which of the following lines from Emily Dickinson's poem, 'A Bird came down the Walk', includes a simile?
9. Which of the following lines from Lord Byron's poem, 'The Destruction of Sennacherib', includes a simile?
10. Which of the following lines from John Keats's poem, 'To Autumn', contains a simile?

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