Free personification resources including poetry worksheets, lesson plans, examples, figurative language exercises, and creative writing activities.
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 poetry lesson plan for grades 3–5 teaching personification through reading, discussion, brainstorming, collaborative writing, and original poems.
Free printable personification & symbolism quiz with 10 questions and a teacher answer key for classroom poetry assessment and review.
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.
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