Students identify similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia and idioms in sentences and a story, then write two of their own.
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Students learn to spot six types of figurative language: simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia and idiom. They name the type in ten sentences, explain what four of them really mean, then find five figures of speech in "Lights Out," a short story about a family during a power cut, and record each one's type and meaning. A final task asks for a simile and a personification about a busy farmers market. The key explains why sentence 2 counts as a simile even though it exaggerates.
Sentence 2, "as round as a pumpkin," is both a comparison and an exaggeration. Students who write hyperbole have spotted something real; the key counts it as a simile because of the as … as wording, so use it to show how one phrase can fit two types.
"A blessing in disguise" is the hardest example to find in the story because it reads like ordinary words. If students stop at four, point them to the last sentence.
If a meaning just repeats the figure, such as "the yard was a swamp," ask students what the yard was really like.
Ways to adjust the figurative language tasks for different students.
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Students name six kinds of figurative language in sentences and in a short story and explain what each really means, then write a simile and a personification. They do not discuss the effect on the reader.
Students explain the meaning behind similes, metaphors, idioms and other figures in a story. Vocabulary choice, grammar and text structure are not covered.
It has five: a simile, a metaphor, personification, hyperbole and an idiom. Onomatopoeia appears only on page 1, in the chart and sentence 4.
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