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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Imagery, Metaphor, and Simile (English Ii Reading)
This lesson focuses on understanding imagery, metaphors, and similes.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Simile and Metaphor
You will learn how to explain the effect of similes and extended metaphors in literary text.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Simile and Metaphor (English Iii Reading)
You will be able to identify the similes and metaphors in a text and evaluate their importance to the meaning of the text. W.11-12.2d Lang/Fig/Voc
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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Unique Metaphor Collections
In this lesson, the first chapter of the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring is used as a mentor text. Students will identify metaphors and then create their own unique metaphorical descriptions that they will begin to collect in their...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Descriptive Writing: Similes, Metaphors, Cliches, Hyperbole
This lesson focuses on figurative language used in descriptive writing including similes, metaphors, cliches, hyperbole. It offers multiple links to websites pertaining to figurative language in descriptive and creative writing; an...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Monster of a Metaphor
Students analyze the monster metaphor from chapter five of The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck as they develop ideas for extended metaphors that describe characters within a specific setting. Teacher instructions and resources are provided,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Literary Text: Imagery, Metaphor, and Simile
Writers use sensory imagery ("smelled the salty air"), similes ("like a strong man playing tug-of-war"), and metaphors ("the waves roaring in my ears") to capture the reader's imagination. In this lesson, you will learn how to identify...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Imagery: Simile and Metaphor (English I Reading)
[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
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Imagery: Simile and Metaphor (English I Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to recognize the literary devices of simile and metaphor and understand their roles in poetry and fiction.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Metaphor
This is a glossary entry for the term "Metaphor" including a definition and links to simile, personification, hyperbole, anology, and other figures of speech.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Simile and Metaphor
Explain the effect of similes and extended metaphors in literary text.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Imagery, Metaphor, and Simile (English Ii Reading)
Evaluate the role of imagery, metaphor, and simile in literary nonfiction such as speeches and essays.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Metaphorical Gold: Mining the Gold Rush for Stories
In this lesson plan, middle schoolers will consider "Metaphorical Gold: Mining the Gold Rush for Stories." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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...
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Kids on the Net: Dragonville: Do You Know Your Metaphors?
In this game, students are to drag the words on the right to the complete the metaphor on the left. The time begins as soon as the game is opened.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Metaphors and Similes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces metaphors and similes. It also provides practice and a writing assessment.
TES Global
Blendspace: Similes and Metaphors
An eighteen-part learning module with links to videos, charts, and images to teach similes and metaphors.
TES Global
Blendspace: Metaphors and Similes
A twelve-part learning module with links to videos, images, websites, and a quiz on metaphors and similes.
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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.
TES Global
Blendspace: Similes & Metaphors by Mrs. Wade
A six-part learning module with links to videos and websites about similes and metaphors.
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