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Students examine the use of metaphors in literature. For this literary devices lesson, students read poems that feature extended metaphors and compare them to the metaphors used in Don Quixote. Students then try their hand at writing their own extended metaphors.

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metaphors, figurative language, literary devices, don quixote, miguel de cervantes

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9th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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