Curated Video
Simile/Metaphor: It's a Figure of Speech
Mr. Griot explains and models writing similes and metaphors.
Curated Video
The Taming of the Shrew 5.2 Interview: Kate, Bianca, Widow, Petruchio, Lucentio, and Hor
This video explores the culmination of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" in Act 5, Scene 2, focusing on the thematic resolution through the depiction of three marriages and a festive banquet. Viewers will gain insights into the...
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Metaphor Meanings
“Metaphor Meanings” is a video that discusses metaphors and compares their literal and figurative meanings.
Curated Video
Figurative Language: Idioms, Similes, and Metaphors
Mr. Griot examines some common idioms and identifies similes and metaphors.
Curated Video
Oh, How My Tree Inspires Me
Mr. Griot reviews figurative language and writes an original poem. He uses the poem to identify examples of simile, metaphor, idioms, personification, and alliteration.
Wonderscape
Understanding Similes: The Art of Comparison in Language
This video examines similes, a key figure of speech used for comparison in writing. It explains how similes, characterized by the use of "like" or "as," differ from metaphors and enhance clarity and impact in communication. The video...
Wonderscape
Exploring the Power of Figurative Language: Metaphors and Beyond
This video explores figurative language's role in writing, focusing on metaphors, similes, allusions, personification, and hyperbole. It highlights how these devices enhance understanding and persuasion, using examples and interactive...
Wonderscape
Exploring Figures of Speech: Symbolism and More
This video delves into various figures of speech, focusing on symbolism, allegory, onomatopoeia, paradox, and puns. It uses engaging examples, like Shakespeare's works, to explain how symbols convey complex, abstract ideas in literature,...
Curated Video
Figures of Speech
Figures of Speech explores figurative language and examines word relationships in context by interpreting statements that contain figures of speech.
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Metaphors and Similes
Metaphors and Similes explores metaphors and similes by interpreting literal and figurative meanings.
Curated Video
Figurative Language: Creating Meaning with Comparisons
This video will help students understand the critical role of comparative figurative language (metaphor, simile, and personification) in establishing theme in poetry.
Curated Video
Prose Poetry
This video discusses the definition of prose poetry and provides an example from the genre.
Curated Video
Studying Sensory Language
A video entitled “Sensory Language” which explores how to use sensory language when writing.
Schooling Online
Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway - Theme of Dreams, Memories and Time
Beyond our physical selves, we’re made up of other, more mysterious things - like memories and dreams. As time passes, we inevitably change, which is a source of stress for many. Woolf explores these complex ideas in Mrs Dalloway by...
Schooling Online
Ray Bradbury's The Pedestrian - Theme of Media and Technology
Ever since the advent of the smartphone we’ve seen a rapid uptick in the influence of technology over our everyday lives. But Ray Bradbury predicted this, all the way back in the 1950s! In The Pedestrian, Bradbury projects his mind...
Curated Video
Metaphor and Similes
Learn the difference between metaphors and similes and understand why these two figurative language devices are so important in writing.
Curated Video
How to Use Examples, Analogies, Similes and Metaphors when Writing your Essay
In this video, I break down how to use examples, metaphors, analogies, and similes to build and explain your ideas in your writing. You can use these in your paragraphs and essays to take your ideas to the next level. I explain the...
Schooling Online
Shakespeare Today: Much Ado About Nothing - Theme of Language and Communication
Watch this lesson today to discover how Shakespeare explores the power of language and spoken communication in Much Ado About Nothing. Unpack the witty banter between Beatrice and Benedick, the deceitful language of Don John, and...
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Rhetorical Devices For Persuasion
These Top 10 Rhetorical Devices for Persuasion and Public Speaking will enhance the persuasiveness of your speeches. These are also called Rhetorical Techniques or Literary Devices or that writers use in speeches and writing to enhance...
Schooling Online
Perfecting Poetry: T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Lines 1-14
Are you ready to perfect your understanding of one of the most important poems of the 20th century? Join us for a rigorous and entertaining analysis of the epigraph and lines 1-14 of T.S. Eliot’s famous poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred...
Schooling Online
Powering Through Prose: Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed - Theme of Grief and Mental Illness
Isolation, grief and anger are never a good combination. After the loss of his wife, infant daughter, and his prestigious job, Felix Phillips struggles to get his life back on track. Alone in his rural shack, dark thoughts and delusions...
Schooling Online
Powering Through Prose: Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed - Theme of Revenge and Redemption Part 1
How far would you go for revenge? Is blackmail the answer? In this lesson, we’ll look at Felix Phillips’ revenge plot against Tony Price, the man who stole Felix’s job twelve years ago. Now that he’s living in rural poverty and teaching...
Schooling Online
Shakespeare Today: Julius Caesar - Theme of Order vs Chaos
Watch this lesson today to discover how Shakespeare explores the tension between order and chaos in Julius Caesar. See the chaos that is unleashed when the conspirators disturb the Great Chain of Being and murder Caesar. Along the way,...
Poetry Foundation
Michael Gregory reads "Very Like a Whale"
Michael Gregory reads Ogden Nash's poem, "Very Like a Whale