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TES Global

Tes: Writing Your Own Poetry

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students can write a poem that incorporates personification and similes with the help of this template.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language Poems With Questions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying figurative language techniques in the context of poems. Nine different worksheets are available to help reinforce the concept of figurative language in poetry.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: The Modern Poet: Poetry Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a poetry terms presentation which defines poetry terms.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Teaching Personification Through Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson plan examines the use of personification in the "great poets." Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Personification in Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers will explore the use of personification in published poetry and write a poem using personification. They will use clay animation to produce a short video of their poem.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Plath, Personification, and Figurative Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This project based activity will use Sylvia Plath's poem, "Mirror", to examine the use of personification and figurative language. The activity may also incorporate the use of technology to produce a multimedia project. This allows...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Personification With "Grass" by Carl Sandburg

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will be reading the poem "Grass" and identify the main idea and supporting details with a partner. Students will then write a poem using personification.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Personifying Abstractions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn about personification and how to use it to when writing about abstract nouns. Finally, students write poems using the nouns they have chosen and personifications they have developed. Teacher and student instructions are...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Personification for Poems

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
An explanation of personification and how it is used in poetry followed by a personification maker. Students push the buttons to create a personification and then write a poem that uses and expands on it.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": Bringing a Great City Alive

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students examine primary source documents including photographs, film, maps, and essays to learn about Chicago at the turn of the 20th century and Carl Sandburg's famous poem. After examining the poem's use of...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Poetry Unzipped: Personification in Poetry [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Website
Other

Centre for Literacy in Primary Education: Poetryline: Poetic Forms and Devices

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource for learning about the different forms and devices used in poetry. Each item is linked to its own page which has examples of its use. Many of the pages have videos of authors reading their poems, and some have...
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Handout
Emory University

Emory University Writing Center: Personification

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A definition of personification. Includes two examples- one from the poetry of Sylvia Plath, the other from John Keats' poem "To Autumn."
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: There Once Was...

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Part 2 of this tutorial on limerick writing demonstrates the importance of form (meter and rhyme) in limerick poetry using the exemplary and amusing work of Edward Lear.
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Website
Able Media

Figures of Speech: Rhetoric Exercises

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a great exercise that helps students practice identifying and translating rhetorical devices in Latin poetry. Uses examples from Book II of Vergil's Aeneid.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language: Shakespeare

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying figurative language techniques found in excerpts written by William Shakespeare. A worksheet is available to help reinforce the concept of figurative language...
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Unit Plan
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Numerous activities, games, quizzes, lessons, and PowerPoint presentations are provided for the topic of "figurative language" in writing. Students will have numerous exposures to examples. Students will also be able to practice...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning:american Literature and Composition: Modernism:carl Sandburg

For Students 9th - 10th
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....
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University of Virginia Library

Prism: "Maples" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Judith Pordon's "Maples." Imagery is blue while personification is red and archetype is green. Click on any word to see the percentage of users that...
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Literary Terms Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
This is a lesson plan for teaching the seven literary terms used in poetry: simile, metaphor, alliteration, imagery, hyperbole, personification, and onomatopoeia.
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Handout
Other

Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
Calling itself "unique," Bob's is easy to use, with cross-links throughout, phonetic pronunciation guides when necessary, and many examples and quotations. Click on the letter and scroll for the word.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 7: Using Rock to Teach Literary Devices

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Death Personified

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will personify an object within a poem. They will focus on voice and word choice in order to fully convey their message.
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Handout
Other

Fu Jen Univ.: Poetic Elements: Denotation and Connotation: Figures of Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site gives short definitions of the terms denotation and connotation. Also gives definitions for many figures of speech. Finally, includes discussion and study questions for a few poems at the bottom of the page. L.11-12.5b Nuance

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