Curated OER
The Relationship Between Zen And Haiku Aesthetics
High schoolers examine the principles of Haiku as they relate to idealss found in Zen Buddhism in this High School lesson. The lesson concludes with the creation of individual haikus by each student.
Curated OER
Mobile of Information
Young scholars create a mobile of various geometric designs to be usend to display information from a variety of texts. They add graphics as well as graphs and charts, color, design and artwork to express the ideas learned through the...
Curated OER
Art: Mirror Of History
Students show through art how major human events have changed American Culture. Students write in a journal to keep track of studying that is done during the unit. They also create an oral report.
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Storybooks and Games
Students explore stories, games and coloring pages on an interactive website. In this pre-reading activity, students have free access to stories, coloring pages and simple games at the Lil' Fingers website.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Grammar Basics: Metaphors
This tutorial focuses on metaphors using a PowerPoint presentation which offers definitions, examples, and various types of metaphors, as well as, similes for comparison. It provides two YouTube videos: the first includes popular songs...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Extended Metaphor
This slideshow focuses on the extended metaphor including defining it, stating its purpose, showing the difference between a metaphor and an extended metaphor, and providing a literary example -- Shakespeare's "As You Like It"-- with...
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Metaphors
This slideshow lesson focuses on the literary device metaphor. It defines the term, explains its purpose, and provides examples. W.11-12.2d Lang/Fig/Voc
Read Works
Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Metaphors
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book If You Hopped Like a Frog by David M. Schwartz and an additional short text to learn to identify and understand the use of metaphor in fiction. Lesson includes...
Other
My Schoolhouse: Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole
Definitions and examples of simile, metaphor, and hyperbole followed by 15 sentences asking students to identify whether the sentence contains a simile, metaphor, or hyperbole.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Simile and Metaphor
[Free Registration/Login Required] This elementary flipchart explores examples of simile and metaphor as students brainstorm ideas with the class.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Metaphor & Simile
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps students understand the use of metaphors and similes in written and spoken language. There are several fun examples, activities and whole group feedback using Activotes.
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.
TES Global
Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Sonnet 130 Year 7
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan for Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" asks students to mark the rhyme scheme and highlight similes and metaphors, to respond to a modern letter with a message similar to the sonnet, and to...
Other
Seymour Community School District: 10 Rhetorical Devices [Pdf]
A slideshow discussing ten rhetorical devices, with links to examples, in-depth information, and a video. Covers logos, ethos, pathos, analogy, metaphor, irony, personification, rhetorical question, tricolon, and maxims. Presents a...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Writing Poetry Like Pros
By looking to examples of popular poetry in a variety of forms, students learn to analyze, appreciate, and synthesize poetry in the classroom. "Writing Poetry Like Pros" provides several links to poetry texts and suggestions for creating...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning:romantic Poetry:second Generation: Lord Byron, George Gordon
This lesson on Romantic Poetry focuses on the second generation poet Lord Byron (George Gordon). It features links to his biography, and two of his poems both offered in both text and audio forms: "She Walks in Beauty" and "Don Juan...
Poetry Foundation
Poetry Foundation: Baseball Poems
A collection of descriptive and metaphorical poems about baseball, including poems by Mae Swenson, John Updike, and William Carlos Williams, and, of course, "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer.
Other
Centre for Literacy in Primary Education: Poetryline: Poetic Forms and Devices
An excellent resource for learning about the different forms and devices used in poetry. Each item is linked to its own page which has examples of its use. Many of the pages have videos of authors reading their poems, and some have...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Understand Figurative Language
Explains what similes and metaphors are and how they are alike and different. Provides examples and practice sheets for each.
Other
David G. Simpson: The Use of Kennings in Anglo Saxon Literature [Pdf]
This is an eleven-page PDF research paper on the use of kennings in Anglo Saxon literature. It includes a definition of kennings (a type of metaphor), an outline, the paper, an appendix of kennings and literal translations, and resources.
Read Works
Read Works: Figurative Language 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this three-lesson plan unit, students use the book If You Hopped Like a Frog by David Schwartz and some additional short texts to learn to identify and understand the use of simile and metaphor in...
Read Works
Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Poetry
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan in which students use two provided poems to learn to identify and understand the use of similes and metaphors in poetry. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Identifying Figures of Speech [Pdf]
A graphic organizer which allows students to document and list the figures of speech they identify in a given piece of literature. These include simile, metaphor, personification, and symbol, and require examples from the text.