Free metaphor and simile resources for teaching poetry, including printable worksheets, lesson plans, figurative language activities, examples, and writing exercises.
A four-page poetry analysis worksheet using Langston Hughes's A Dream Deferred to teach simile, imagery, theme, historical context, personal response, and original figurative-language poetry writing.
A ten-question multiple-choice poetry quiz asking students to identify figurative language and poetic devices including simile, metaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole, enjambment, rhyme, and rhythm.
Free printable figurative language poetry quiz with 10 questions and a teacher answer key for classroom poetry assessment and review.
Free printable metaphor & simile assessment with 10 questions and a teacher answer key for classroom poetry assessment and review.
Openly licensed poetry and figurative-language lesson using 'Twas the Night Before Christmas to teach similes, metaphors, comparison, and close reading.
A two-page student worksheet defining poetic devices and providing literary examples, with space for students to write their own examples of end-stopping, enjambment, refrain, alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyme, simile, metaphor, symbol, hyperbole, personification, metonymy, allusion and apostrophe.
A nine-page reference guide to poetic devices covering sound, meaning and arrangement, including alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyme, rhythm, meter, scansion, metaphor, simile, symbolism, personification, allusion, irony, point of view, line, stanza and more.
A two-page poetry-elements pre-test and practice worksheet assessing personification, alliteration, metaphor, simile, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, rhyme and imagery, followed by application to a short poem.
A classroom poetry quiz assessing assonance, consonance, point of view, repetition, rhyme, stanza, figurative language, personification, metaphor, simile, alliteration, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, rhyme scheme and effects of poetic devices.
A broad classroom poetry teaching guide with activities for rhythm, rhyme, figurative language, simile, metaphor, alliteration, limerick, acrostic, diamante, shape poetry, haiku, cinquain, free verse, reading, writing, and performance.
Openly licensed Grades 9–10 lesson on metaphor and the Golden Shovel poetry form, culminating in students writing an original Golden Shovel poem.
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