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A Monster of a Metaphor

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What do Jeep advertisements and Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath have in common? They both employ the art of the extended metaphor! Using the Six-Trait Writing model, learners begin to work on their own extended metaphors. Development assignments, graphic organizers, and sentence fluency sheets are all included, as are the aforementioned Jeep ads (through a Flickr account). 

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metaphors, figurative language, literary devices, the grapes of wrath, john steinbeck, sentence fluency, developing ideas

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extended metaphor, idea development, john steinbeck, metaphors, sentence fluency, six-trait writing, the grapes of wrath, english language arts
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7th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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2011
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