[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource explores figurative language including similes, metaphors, and personification. There are many activities used to support the exploration of each type of figurative language.

A six-part learning module with links to videos and websites about similes and metaphors.

This lesson plan used a slideshow presentation to explain the difference between similes and metaphors. Students are challenged to identify these figurative elements in literature and then create some themselves.

This game asks students to match literary devices (similes, metaphors, personification, slang/dialect and allusions) with their examples while remembering where they are located behind covered squares. Java is required.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan for Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" asks students to mark the rhyme scheme and highlight similes and metaphors, to respond to a modern letter with a message similar to the sonnet, and to...

This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying different types of figurative language. Reinforcement is provided through the worksheets, quizzes, video game links, and online sites for the following types...

Along with definitions for four types of figurative language, this learning module provides numerous examples. Similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole are the types of figurative language featured.

A ten-question quiz on recognizing similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and personification. Results can be printed, saved, or emailed.

A twelve-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites on figurative language and tone.

This is a lesson plan for teaching the seven literary terms used in poetry: simile, metaphor, alliteration, imagery, hyperbole, personification, and onomatopoeia.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan in which students use two provided poems to learn to identify and understand the use of similes and metaphors in poetry. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...

This teachers' guide for "The Polar Express" by Chris Van Allsburg has lessons designed for both early elementary and intermediate students. It includes working with a timeline and learning about similes and metaphors. (In PDF format.)