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Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare for Kids: Love and Friendship [Pdf]
Learn how love and friendship were expressed in seventeenth-century England, then try your hand at creating similar lines using the conventions of the seventeenth century.
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Mc Graw Hill: Analyze Language Choices
Learn about figurative language and how to determine the figurative, denotative, and connotative meanings of words.
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Shoreline Community College: Formal Properties of Literature
As students become more aware of text complexity, an understanding of the formal properties of literature becomes more important. This is an excellent examination of the kinds of choices writers make that change the way readers receive...
Quia
Quia: Congress Test
This is a 5 question metaphor quiz in which students select answers from options given. Java is required.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: An Ocean Unit Exploring Simile and Metaphor
Contains plans for four lessons that teach students about similes and metaphors using ocean themed resources. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
Quia
Quia: Grammar: Is This Sentence Correct?
This 10 question quiz asks students to select the correct answer to questions about metaphors. Java is required.
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Quia: Action Verbs
This 26 question quiz has students choose the term that best matches the definition. Java is required.
Quia
Quia: Bud, Not Buddy: Similies and Metaphors
These games use the similes and metaphors from the novel Bud, Not Buddy. There are three games: Flashcards, Matching, and Concentration. Flashcards has half of the simile/metaphor on each side of the card; Matching has students match the...
Quia
Quia: Literary Devices
This word search asks students to locate quoted examples of literary devices using the word bank provided. Java is required.
Quia
Quia: S v Agreement: Indefinite Pronouns
Given the term definition, students are to select the matching literary term in this 40 question quiz that covers 40 literary terms. Java is required.
Quia
Quia: Have Fun: My Quia Activities and Quizzes
Have Fun is a collection of links to Quia games, activities, and quizzes covering a variety of language arts topics, such as analogies, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, sequencing, categorizing, compound words, grammar, sentences, and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Figurative Language Awards Ceremony
Contains plans for five to seven lessons that teach about figurative language like similes, metaphors, and personification by asking students to write award acceptance speeches that incorporate them. In addition to objectives and...
Quia
Quia: Matching: Literary Devices
This matching game has students match examples of literary devices (yellow boxes) with the terms (blue boxes). There are multiples of each, but each set is matched to a specific box. Java is required.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Finding Figurative Language in the Phantom Tollbooth
Contains plans for four lessons that use The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster to teach about figurative language. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to handouts and to sites used in the...
Quia
Quia: Concentration: Literary Devices
This game asks students to match literary devices (similes, metaphors, personification, slang/dialect and allusions) with their examples while remembering where they are located behind covered squares. Java is required.
TES Global
Blendspace: 8th Grade Poetry Unit
This thirty-three-part learning module provides a poetry unit designed for 8th graders. This blendspace provides videos, web resources, and reference sheets related to the study of eighth grade poetry content.
TES Global
Blendspace: Rl 5.4 Figurative Language
This twelve-part learning module provides assorted references for figurative language terms. This blendspace provides reproducible charts, flash cards, a game, video tutorial lessons, and rap songs. L.9-10.5 Fig Lang/nuances
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E Reading Worksheets: Differentiated Reading Instruction Worksheets, Activities
A collection of differentiated reading activities are provided in this collection. Worksheets for the following reading topics are included: climax, story structure, elements of a story; fact and opinion; summarizing, narrative sequence;...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Lord of the Flies
In this learning module, students will engage in a deep study of William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies. A game to reinforce the understanding of the conficts in the Lord of the Flies is available. Worksheets with figurative devices...
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E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language Poems With Questions
This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying figurative language techniques in the context of poems. Nine different worksheets are available to help reinforce the concept of figurative language in poetry.
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E Reading Worksheets: Personification Worksheets
This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying and explaining personification in sentences. Reinforcement for personification is provided through the nine different worksheets.
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E Reading Worksheets: Simile Worksheets
This site contains figurative language worksheets that assess students' understanding of similes in the context of sentence. After seeing an example, students will fill in the words that are compared in each simile. In addition, students...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language Examples
Along with definitions for four types of figurative language, this learning module provides numerous examples. Similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole are the types of figurative language featured.
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E Reading Worksheets: Idiom Worksheets
This site provides seven worksheets to help students understand idioms and their figurative meanings better. In each exercise, students will explain the meaning of idioms that are embedded into sentences.