Fancier Figurative Language
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Part 1: Fancier Figurative Language: Start with a Cliche
We'll start with the cliché "as cold as ice" and go somewhere much more interesting.
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Part 2: Fancier Figurative Language: Use the Opposite
Let's start with "As cold as fire."
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Part 3: Fancier Figurative Language: Move the Simile
What if we started a sentence with the simile?
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Part 4: Fancier Figurative Language: Advanced Repetition
Is your students' use of repetition limited to, "The girl was very, very, very fast."? Let's borrow some ideas from Shakespeare!
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Part 5: Advanced Alliteration and Consonance
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.