This is a glossary entry for the term "Allegory" including multiple definitions for the term, links to other figures of speech, links to more information, and examples.

This site offers a multitude of figurative language quizzes (some by grade level), a PowerPoint presentation and links to much more. It features a 30 question quiz asking students to either read or listen to statements and then select...

This site provides seven worksheets to help students understand idioms and their figurative meanings better. In each exercise, students will explain the meaning of idioms that are embedded into sentences.

This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying and explaining personification in sentences. Reinforcement for personification is provided through the nine different worksheets.

In this culminating lesson for a poetry unit, students will create a video podcast that summarizes a specific poem, analyzes the poet's use of literary elements, and infers the meaning of the poem (theme). The podcast must use a talk...

In this interactive, "millionaire-style" game, students read passages with idioms in them. Then they will select the correct explanation for each idiom.

This slideshow lesson introduces idioms.

This instructional activity not only examines the message of Dr. King, but also the words themselves. This is a instructional activity in identifying the literary devices that he used in his "I Have a Dream" Speech. It will introduce the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart the student identifies the characteristics of various genres and produces evidence of reading that responds to and analyzes the effects of sound, figurative language, and graphics in...