U3: Simile or Metaphor

Underline the similes/metaphors in each of the sentences below and identify whether they are similes or metaphors.

No.	Sentences	Simile or Metaphor
1.	The pirate had manners like a savage.
2.	The Captain’s salt-worn face was as rough as the barnacles crusting the hull of his ship.
3.	Jill was as white as a ghost when she saw the pirate-ship approaching.
4.	Trapped in a dead calm, the ship’s sails hung as limp and useless as patched socks hanging from a clothesline.
5.	The navy patrol prowls for pirates in the region and makes sure the crew is ever ready to roar into action.
6.	Rain pelted the men aboard the ship, an angry lashing of tears from an unforgiving sea mistress.
7.	The crew feared their captain as he was tough as nails and would spare no one who disobeyed his orders.