Figurative Language

Let’s take a starting phrase about St. Patrick’s Day and get specific. No, even more specific!

Let’s make this simile about a strong uncle even more specific.

Students will make this slimy broccoli simile seriously specific.

Let’s make this simile about a quick baby even more specific.

Let’s make this simile about a loud class super specific!

Let’s start with “As cold as fire.”

What if we started a sentence with the simile?

Is your students’ use of repetition limited to, “The girl was very, very, very fast.”? Let’s borrow some ideas from Shakespeare!

When students learn about alliteration, it’s hard to steer them away from goofy tongue-twisters. Certainly, there must be more powerful and practical ways of using alliteration. In this lesson, I draw on delicious examples from Shakespeare to show how a very advanced writer used alliteration. Then, I break those ideas down so students can try them out.

We’ll start with the cliché “as cold as ice” and go somewhere much more interesting.