Students put poetic interpretations back together to explain the poem. Starting with cliches, students learn what various phrases mean. They analyze words, phrases and levels of meaning.

Students explore poetry using American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project. They compose their own unque "found poetry" based on the stories found in the collection.

Identify the rhyme scheme in a worksheet that features "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Readers use the nursery rhyme to reinforce poetic elements in four comprehension questions.

Follow poetry instruction with a four-category rubric designed to guide budding poets' writing of free verse poetry. 

Young scholars create a poem on about spring. They read final version of their poem chorally. They write reflections of their experience in creating the poem.

After matching words drawn from Kate Chopin’s novel, The Awakening, with their definitions, readers complete a magic square game. Included are instructions for how to develop magic squares.

How do your pupils believe others see them? Invite them to write narratives to explore the image they present to the word. The narratives, inspired by The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, are to be set at each pupil's hypothetical funeral.

In this figurative language worksheet, students identify the figurative language technique being used in each of the 10 sentences. The sentences are based on Edgar Allan Poe's literary work.

Students examine the different types of poetic conventions. They write a poem about philanthropy using these conventions. They illustrate their poem with artwork of their choice.

Students investigate dialect in poetry as an indication of a people's culture in literature. They write a poem about dating in this era.

In this poetry learning exercise, students complete multiple choice questions on different aspects of poetry. Students complete 40 questions total.

This lesson focuses on understanding imagery, metaphors, and similes.

Evaluate the role of imagery, metaphor, and simile in literary nonfiction such as speeches and essays.

Writers use sensory imagery ("smelled the salty air"), similes ("like a strong man playing tug-of-war"), and metaphors ("the waves roaring in my ears") to capture the reader's imagination. In this lesson, you will learn how to identify...

These games use the similes and metaphors from the novel Bud, Not Buddy. There are three games: Flashcards, Matching, and Concentration. Flashcards has half of the simile/metaphor on each side of the card; Matching has students match the...

A twelve-part learning module with links to videos, images, websites, and a quiz on metaphors and similes.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces metaphors and similes. It also provides practice and a writing assessment.

This language arts lesson grabs students' attention by incorporating a popular musician. The lyrics to "Over You" include vivid language that makes identifying figures of speech intriguing. The students will identify similes, metaphors,...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to recognize the literary devices of simile and metaphor and understand their roles in poetry and fiction.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps students understand the use of metaphors and similes in written and spoken language. There are several fun examples, activities and whole group feedback using Activotes.

You will learn how to explain the effect of similes and extended metaphors in literary text.

You will be able to identify the similes and metaphors in a text and evaluate their importance to the meaning of the text. W.11-12.2d Lang/Fig/Voc

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...