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Setting the Tone with Figurative Language

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Explore figurative language with your secondary class. Extending a language arts unit, the lesson prompts middle schoolers to examine how an author's word choice establishes a story's tone, possibly using metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and personification. They can then develop their own plots using figurative language. 

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CCSS: Adaptable
Concepts

word choice, diction, sensory language, imagery, figurative language, tone, literary devices

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figurative language, literary skills, sensory language, tone, word choice, english language arts
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Grade
8th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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For Teacher Use
Duration
2 days
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Research
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Common Core

RL.8.4 RL.8.10 W.8.3.a W.8.4

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