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Review and discuss literary devices using this resource, a PowerPoint about personification, simile, and metaphor. Learners can talk about metaphors, similes, and personification. This could a part of a more in-depth discussion of these topics. You could also make it into a game for review! You might have learners create their own PowerPoint presentations about figurative language and present them to the class.

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metaphors, figurative language, literary devices, similes, personification

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figurative language, metaphors, personification, similies, literary devices, identification, english language arts
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Grade
4th - 7th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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For Teacher Use
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19
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