SciShow
Hearing Colors, Seeing Sounds: Synesthesia
Hank explains the little we know about the perceptual condition known as synesthesia, where a person involuntary associates one sensation or experience with another sensation.
Curated Video
Gaia: The Mother of Creation
Imagine being the mother to every single living thing. What would you do if one of your children threatened the safety of the others? Would you kill or imprison your progeny to save the world? Gaia would know. As Greek mythology’s...
Curated Video
Oh, How My Tree Inspires Me
Mr. Griot reviews figurative language and writes an original poem. He uses the poem to identify examples of simile, metaphor, idioms, personification, and alliteration.
Curated Video
A Midsummer Night's Dream 2.1.92 Animated Note: Proud River
In A Midsumer Night's Dream, Titania describes her quarrel with Oberon as disrupting the natural world, causing mists to pull water from the sea and flood rivers, which she personifies as becoming "proud and arrogant." This video...
Wonderscape
Personification: Bringing Life to the Inanimate in Literature
This video delves into the concept of personification, where non-human entities, like animals and objects, are endowed with human qualities. It discusses examples to illustrate how personification adds depth and relatability to...
Curated Video
Figures of Speech
Figures of Speech explores figurative language and examines word relationships in context by interpreting statements that contain figures of speech.
Curated Video
Using Personification in Poetry
“Using Personification in Poetry” is a video lesson that defines personification, discusses its use in poetry, and demonstrates how to compose a poem using personification.
Curated Video
Figurative Language: Creating Meaning with Comparisons
This video will help students understand the critical role of comparative figurative language (metaphor, simile, and personification) in establishing theme in poetry.
Curated Video
Studying Sensory Language
A video entitled “Sensory Language” which explores how to use sensory language when writing.
PBS
Death, Personified (Feat. Lindsay Ellis)! | PBS Digital Studios
Death as a character reveals how we process one of life’s greatest mysteries, and there’s a lot more breadth to how the grim reaper is depicted than you might think. It's Lit! is part of THE GREAT AMERICAN READ, a eight-part series that...
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Rhetorical Devices For Persuasion
These Top 10 Rhetorical Devices for Persuasion and Public Speaking will enhance the persuasiveness of your speeches. These are also called Rhetorical Techniques or Literary Devices or that writers use in speeches and writing to enhance...
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Powering Through Prose - Narrative Style, Techniques & Figurative Language in Prose Fiction (Stage 4, Years/Grades 7-8)
Our second lesson will zoom into the finer elements of prose fiction. We’ll tackle narrative style, techniques and figurative language. You’ll discover a writer’s number one rule – show, don’t tell. Soon enough, you’ll have all the tools...
Curated Video
KS2 Primary English Age 9-13 - Writing: Writing to Describe Part 3 - Explained
SchoolOnline's Primary English videos are brilliant, bite-size tutorial videos delivered by examiners and skilled teachers. Ideal for ages 9-13, they cover every key skill in English Reading and Writing that students need to master in...
Oxford Comma
Depressing or Romantic: Because I Could Not Stop for Death
A reading, summary, and analysis of Emily Dickinson's, "Because I could not stop for Death." This video explores how Dickinson takes a creepy concept, dying, and turns it into a date set to an upbeat tune.
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Turkey, Aphrodisias Sebasteion
The Sebasteion, or Augusteum, was jointly dedicated, according to a 1st-century inscription on its propylon, "To Aphrodite, the Divine Augusti and the People". A relief found in the ruins of the south portico represented a...
Curated Video
GCSE Secondary English Age 13-17 - Vocabulary: Personification - Explained
SchoolOnline's Secondary English videos are brilliant, bite-size tutorial videos delivered by examiners. Ideal for ages 13-17, they cover every key skill in English Reading and Writing that students need to master in clear and easy to...
Curated Video
KS2 Primary English Age 9-13 - Vocabulary: Personification - Explained
SchoolOnline's Primary English videos are brilliant, bite-size tutorial videos delivered by examiners and skilled teachers. Ideal for ages 9-13, they cover every key skill in English Reading and Writing that students need to master in...
Englishing
ESL - Literary Devices (Onomatopoeia, Personification, Simile, and Metaphor)
What are literary devices? In this video lesson, Mr. P. will answer that question, and will focus on examples of onomatopoeia, personification, simile and metaphor. At the end of the lesson, there is an exercise with key for students to...
Wonderscape
Understanding Figurative Language in Writing
In this video, the teacher explains the use of figurative language in writing, focusing on five key tools: metaphor, simile, allusion, personification, and hyperbole. Through examples and explanations, the teacher helps students...
The Bazillions
Personification
Make something come alive with the words that you provide! Learn all about the magic of personification as you sing along with the Bazillions!
Cerebellum
The Elements Of Poetry - Overview
The Elements of Poetry - Figurative language, meter and rhyme, simile, and metaphor . these are a few of the many topics explored in this lively video tour through the genre of poetry. Other elements illustrated in the program include:...
Cerebellum
The Elements Of Poetry - Figurative Language Continued
The Elements of Poetry - Figurative language, meter and rhyme, simile, and metaphor . these are a few of the many topics explored in this lively video tour through the genre of poetry. Other elements illustrated in the program include:...