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Quia

Quia: Matching: Literary Devices

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
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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 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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TES Global

Blendspace: Figurative Language

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
A twelve-part learning module on figurative language including links to images, videos, a song, and a game to help students learn.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Sad Tale of the Lonely Magnet

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about life from a magnet's point of view. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Mountain

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a wedding written from the unique point of view of the little groom on the top of the cake. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Most Important Question

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about some animals who have to learn to share their space around the pond. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Chicken Pen

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary passage personifies a chicken and his life in the chicken pen. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included....
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Read Works

Read Works: A Small Life

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares the story of a hamster and its first person account of what it sees. This passage is to be read aloud and reinforces essential comprehension skills. Opportunities for...
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Read Works

Read Works: Figurative Language

For Students K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site contains a collection of passage that include figurative language lessons. Each lesson includes questions to assess student understanding.
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Read Works

Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Figurative Language

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which learners use the book Once in a Blue Moon by Nicola Morgan to learn to identify and interpret the meaning of figurative language in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct teaching,...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Figurative Language & Tone

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites on figurative language and tone.
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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 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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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: A Day as Your Shoes

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
It's fun to personify articles of clothing as a means of inspiring creative writing from your students, and this mini-workshop has students a) personify their shoes on a page in their writer's notebook, b) share their story ideas out...
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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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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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Other

University of North Carolina: Glossary of Literary Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is provided for by the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Over forty literary terms defined by college students, each with thorough examples.
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Other

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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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Using Figurative Language to Shape Meaning and Style

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
The young scholars will be able to identify different types of figurative language in a story and explain how the author uses figurative language to shape the meaning and style of the story.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Sentence Structure

For Students 9th Standards
Students analyze the structure of a sentence from the prologue of Act II of Romeo and Juliet to determine how understanding the sentence deepens our understanding of the text.
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Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Statue of the Sacred Apis Bull

For Students 9th - 10th
The sacred Apis bull was the personification of the Memphite god Ptah of creation and fine arts. The bull's head is crowned by the sun disk and the uraeus (cobra). The sacred animal stands on a bronze base and a wooden sled.
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Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Hapy, the Nile God

For Students 9th - 10th
Hapy was the personification of the Nile flood. His body showed both male and female genders at the same time. Hapy was often depicted on the throne of the king, tying the lotus and the papyrus on the symbol of unification.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Denarius

For Students 9th - 10th
Denarius of the earliest kind: Having on the obverse a personification of Rome as a warrior with helmet; and on the reverse, a chariot drawn by four horses. - Chambers' Encyclopedia, 1875

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