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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Figurative Language

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A ten-part learning module with links to videos, websites, texts, and a quiz on figurative language simile, metaphor, idiom, cliche, symbolism, and more.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Idioms, Adages, Proverbs

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to texts and videos to use while learning about idioms, adages, and proverbs.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Learning Figurative Language Rap

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A learning module with twenty-four links to websites, images, texts, and videos to use while learning about figurative language.
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Website
Vocabulary Spelling City

Spelling City: Figurative Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website focuses on figurative language: hyperbole, simile, metaphor, personification, and idioms. It provides lists of examples for each based on three educational levels: elementary, middle school, and high school.
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Handout
Washington State University

Washington State University: Epigram/epigraph/ Epitaph/epithet

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site gives a definition of epitaph and has a link to a collection of epitaphs.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Onomatopoeias

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn that onomatopoeias are words that imitate sounds. Using them can enhance writing and poetry.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Hyperbole

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces hyperbole as a rhetorical device. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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Graphic
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Onomatopoeia

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces onomatopoeia as a figure of speech.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Pun

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces puns in writing. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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Handout
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Alliteration

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces alliteration.
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Hyperbole

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the figure of speech "Hyperbole" including a definition and examples.
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Graphic
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Discovering Irony [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief PDF worksheet in which students can assess the irony in a given piece of literature. They will document the type of irony, an example from the text, and its effect on the reader as indicated by the boxes.
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Handout
Other

Wise Geek: What Is the Difference Between Alliteration and Assonance?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Information and links to additional information about alliteration, assonance, prose, and consonance.
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Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Soliloquy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This short definition of Soliloquy compares it with a similar literary convention, the "aside."
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: Allusions: Flashcards

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on 11 vocabulary words related to mythological allusions.
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Other

Rudolph Academy: Figurative Language Quizzes and Practice Exercises

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers a multitude of figurative language quizzes (some by grade level), a PowerPoint presentation and links to much more. It features a 30 question quiz asking students to either read or listen to statements and then select...
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Handout
Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms: Personification

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Brief definition of personification with links to related terms, allegory and apostrophe.
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Literary Terms Paradox

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A very brief definition of the literary term, paradox, along with an example.
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Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Humour

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from The UVic Writer's Guide provides a general description of the term humour. Content includes a literary example.