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Grade 10, Reading and Literature Std # III-3: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language and analogy Analyze the use of analogy in a passage Analyze how figurative language enhances the comprehension of passages, but not label or define the figurative language Hyperbole, imagery, metaphor, personification, simile Alliteration, allusion, anachronism, anecdote, aphorism, apostrophe, assonance, blank verse, cataloguing, consonance, couplet, extended metaphor, foot, free verse, iambic pentameter, idyll, inversion, meter, onomatopoeia, refrain, repetition, rhetorical question, rhyme scheme, slant rhyme, soliloquy, spondee, symbolism

Lesson Plans: Performance Poetry This lesson strives to move students from literal interpretations to figurative interpretations of literature Analysis of MLK's speech Students analyze and write in response to MLK's "I have a dream" speech Literature of war Students make oral presentations after studying selected Stephen Crane poems Figurative Language This lesson focuses on identifying and creating similes, metaphors, and personification in literature and in students' own writing.

Resources: OWL Major resource site for designing lesson plans related to language terminology and concepts Suggestions for English Language Learners: ESL Ideas (B=Beginning, I=Intermediate, T=Transitional) (B, I, T) Students highlight "like" or "as" to identify similes in a passage. (B, I, T) Working from a list, students highlight words that make a statement a hyperbole. Then they may practice transforming a sentence into a hyperbole. (B, I, T) Working from a list, students highlight words that indicate personification in a passage. Then they may rewrite the passage without the personification for comparison. (I, T) After the concept of alliteration is explained, students identify examples of alliteration in a passage then write alliterative sentences on sentence strips for display. See also Paint By Idioms Game for on-line practice in understanding idioms.
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