Literature-Similes and Metaphors

 

Tell if the following sentences are similes or metaphors.

 

1. Big trees fell like toothpicks when Paul Bunyan swung his axe.

a) simile

b) metaphor

 

2. Babe was a two-ton bundle of blue dynamite.

a) simile

b) metaphor

 

3. Babe's hoofbeats were thunder resounding through the hills.

a) simile

b) metaphor

 

4. The forest was as quiet as a falling leaf.

a) simile

b) metaphor

 

5. Paul's voice was a cannon breaking the silence.

a) simile

b) metaphor