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Centre for Literacy in Primary Education: Poetryline: Poetic Forms and Devices

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Compare and Contrast Ideas

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
This reading resource discusses the strategy of comparing and contrasting ideas. Students will learn definitions and explanations for similes, metaphors, and analogies. A list of guiding questions is provided to help students as they...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Imagery: Simile and Metaphor (English I Reading)

For Students 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Identify the similes and metaphors in a text and evaluate their importance to the meaning of the text. RL.9-10.5 text structure effects
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Simile and Metaphor

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explain the effect of similes and extended metaphors in literary text.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Grammar Basics: Metaphors

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about similes and metaphors through this multimedia presentation. First view a slide show describing different types of metaphors as well as a simile. Then watch a video [3:13] showing similes and metaphors used in popular songs. A...
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Metaphor

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Metaphor" including a definition and links to simile, personification, hyperbole, anology, and other figures of speech.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Stairway to Heaven Examining Metaphor in Popular Music

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Contains plans for two lessons that ask students to make connections between literary texts and popular culture texts like song lyrics. After checking popular culture texts for literary elements, these elements are then examined in...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Identifying Figures of Speech [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Fu Jen Univ.: Poetic Elements: Denotation and Connotation: Figures of Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site gives short definitions of the terms denotation and connotation. Also gives definitions for many figures of speech. Finally, includes discussion and study questions for a few poems at the bottom of the page. L.11-12.5b Nuance
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Idea Lab: Myths in Words and Pictures

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Interactive website in which students learn about myth and symbols in art and storytelling. Engaging and informative with images and informational text.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Deploying Style Effectively

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on rhetorical devices and how to use them effectively in public speaking. These include alliteration, antithesis, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, personification, repetition and parallelism, and simile and metaphor.
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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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Paradigm Education: My Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The text of Act IV of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, accompanied by audio narration. Be sure to advance to scenes 2 and 3 (or to other acts of the play) using the buttons at the top. Includes audio narration, performance clips, discussion...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying different types of figurative language. Reinforcement is provided through the worksheets, quizzes, video game links, and online sites for the following types...
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Spelling police.com: Literary Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A simple list of literary terms. Click on each for a definition and examples.
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Able Media

Figures of Speech: Rhetoric Exercises

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a great exercise that helps students practice identifying and translating rhetorical devices in Latin poetry. Uses examples from Book II of Vergil's Aeneid.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Rl 5.4 Figurative Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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

E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language: Shakespeare

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying figurative language techniques found in excerpts written by William Shakespeare. A worksheet is available to help reinforce the concept of figurative language...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language Poems With Questions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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

E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Numerous activities, games, quizzes, lessons, and PowerPoint presentations are provided for the topic of "figurative language" in writing. Students will have numerous exposures to examples. Students will also be able to practice...
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Thinking Skills

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this self-guided course, you will be looking at several pieces of literature in many different forms. This unit will teach you some principles of thinking and learning and how to use basic literary terms in the analysis of literature....
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Writing Narratives

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Notes, a PowerPoint presentation, two videos, a song, an exercise, and a game help students to understand how to write a narrative. Elements of a narrative as well as the use of figurative language and sensory images are introduced and...
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Quia

Quia: Figurative Language Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This 30-question quiz asks students to answer questions about figurative language by selecting the correct answer. Feedback is provided after the quiz is submitted. Java is required.
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Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
Calling itself "unique," Bob's is easy to use, with cross-links throughout, phonetic pronunciation guides when necessary, and many examples and quotations. Click on the letter and scroll for the word.

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