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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: My Adidas: Letting Your Possessions Tell Your Story

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will listen to Run D.M.C.'s classic, "My Adidas", then they will think about everywhere their shoes have taken them and the story they have to tell. Using literary devices such as personification, point of view,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Personified Number Stories

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith is used as the mentor text. Students will explore numbers and the properties of these numbers. Students will then write a math story, using the explored numbers, and incorporate...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Figurative Language Awards Ceremony

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
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...
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Concentration: Literary Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language Examples

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
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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TES Global

Tes: Writing Your Own Poetry

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students can write a poem that incorporates personification and similes with the help of this template.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language: Reading Test 3

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
A ten-question quiz on recognizing similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and personification. Results can be printed, saved, or emailed.
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Figurative Language

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify and explain the meaning of figurative language including personification and idiom. Lessons are based on the books Once in a Blue...
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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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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: I Have a Metaphor

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan not only examines the message of Dr. King, but also the words themselves. This is a lesson plan in identifying the literary devices that he used in his "I Have a Dream" Speech. It will introduce the following literary...
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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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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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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Very Quiet Cricket

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
During this lesson, students will write a sequel to The Very Quiet Cricket. The students will discuss and demonstrate the use of personification in the story. The class will also complete a WebQuest about The Very Quiet Cricket.
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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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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Proverbs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart the student identifies the characteristics of various genres and produces evidence of reading that responds to and analyzes the effects of sound, figurative language, and graphics in...
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Curated OER

The Artist's Daughters as Personifications of Painting and Music

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "The Artist's Daughters as Personifications of Painting and Music", created by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein in 1804 (Oil on canvas, 131 x 99 cm).
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Personification of Music (St Cecilia)

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Personification of Music (St Cecilia)", created by Antonio Franchi, c. 1650 (Oil on canvas, 87 x 67 cm).
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: A Personification of Fame

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "A Personification of Fame", created by Bernardo Strozziz (Oil on canvas, 107 x 152 cm).
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TES Global

Blendspace: Figurative Language

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
A forty-six part learning module including links to informational texts, videos, pictures, practice exercises and more on various types of figurative language such as simile, metaphor, personification, idiom, alliteration, hyperbole, and...
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University of Virginia Library

Prism: "Maples" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Judith Pordon's "Maples." Imagery is blue while personification is red and archetype is green. Click on any word to see the percentage of users that...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Gallagher Figurative Language

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A learning module with thirty-one links to images, texts, websites, and videos to on figurative language including simile, metaphor, personification, idiom, alliteration, hyperbole, and onomatopoeia.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Literary Devices

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A learning module with eighteen links to videos and images to use when learning about literary devices including simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, and alliteration.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Figurative Language

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource explores figurative language including similes, metaphors, and personification. There are many activities used to support the exploration of each type of figurative language.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: The Hours (Horae)

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the Hours (Horae), the fruitful goddesses of the Seasons and the guards of Mount Olympus, who are the personifications of the seasons.

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