Poetry for ESL students. Hands-on lesson to teach the concept of "simile." Meet the TESOL standards. It provides downloads and resources.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad to learn to identify and understand the use of simile and metaphor in...

This tutorial focuses on metaphors using a PowerPoint presentation which offers definitions, examples, and various types of metaphors, as well as, similes for comparison. It provides two YouTube videos: the first includes popular songs...

Explains what similes and metaphors are and how they are alike and different. Provides examples and practice sheets for each.

An explanation of simile and its role in poetry followed by a simile maker. Press the buttons to create a simile and then write a poem that expands that simile.

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...

This is a lesson plan for teaching the seven literary terms used in poetry: simile, metaphor, alliteration, imagery, hyperbole, personification, and onomatopoeia.

With this writing prompt generator, students will create similes that inspire an original story or a description.

How do metaphors help us better understand the world? What makes a good metaphor? Explore these questions in this video with writers like Langston Hughes and Carl Sandburg, who have mastered the art of bringing a scene or emotion to...