Jimi Hendrix's 'The Wind Cries Mary' is an ideal song, not just to illustrate personification, but also to demonstrate how poetic devices enhance the meaning of the poem. As soon as the students recognize that the speaker is mourning the...

[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...

In this lesson, learners will choose a color and write a poem. Students will use personification and speak from the point of view of the color. Then learners will use watercolor paints to exemplify their poem about a color.

Two page, PDF format handout about Richard Wilber's poem "The Death of a Toad" used as an example of personification. Also includes a student-written explanation of the poem and a few discussion questions.

This lesson plan features the Latin roots PLIC = fold, bend; FAC-FIC = make, do; COGN-NOT = know. Choose 1 of the 8 different word puzzle activities from the list below. Each word puzzle has directions, a clue and a vocabulary word list....

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use the book The Runaway Tortilla by Eric A. Kimmel to learn to identify and understand the use of personification in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students 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,...

In this lesson, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, a book written by Mary O'Neill and Red Sings, and From Treetops: a Year in Colors, a book by Joyce Sidman, are used as mentor texts. Students will brainstorm to collect different adjectives,...

This lesson focuses on the short story "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It features links to the article "The Salem Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692 and 'Young Goodman Brown'" and the PDF text for the short story. It also defines...

In this lesson, students learn how to make complex inferences and use textual evidence such as imagery and figurative language to support understanding.

A WebQuest where students explore microbial diversity by looking at the extreme habitat of the Atlantic White Cedar Swamp. Students will learn about protists through personification theme of Aesop's Fables. At the end of the lesson,...

This lesson from a unit on American Transcendentalism focuses on key literary terms that fit the writings of the period and an interactive crossword puzzle using the terms and their definitions.

This lesson focuses on Carl Sanburg and his poem "Chicago." It includes biographical information, as well as links to the poem, a video of pictures of Chicago in the early 20th century, and a "Discovery Education" video on Carl Sandburg....

[Free Registration/Login Required] This site contains a collection of passage that include figurative language lessons. Each lesson includes questions to assess student understanding.

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,...

In this instructional activity, students will personify an object within a poem. They will focus on voice and word choice in order to fully convey their message.

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...

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.

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.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to analyze literary nonfiction, especially speeches, by making inferences and drawing conclusions based on evidence in the text. The...

A twelve-part learning module on figurative language including links to images, videos, a song, and a game to help students learn.

The students 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.

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.