The document outlines a micro-teaching session focused on literary devices, specifically similes, metaphors, and personification. Participants will learn to identify and create examples of these figures of speech, enhancing their writing skills. The session includes activities for interaction and assessment to reinforce understanding and application of the concepts.

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Literary devices
(Similes, Metaphors, Personification)
SCHOOL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB
QUAID-E-AZAM ACADEMY FOR
EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Presented by:
Faiza Shahana, Aasia Nasir, Maliha Mumtaz, Aysha Sadaf)

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• Participants will understand the concept of similes,
metaphors and personification.
• Participants will be able to identify similes,
metaphors and personification.
• Participants will be able to develop litrary mind and
appreciate things poetically
OBJECTIVES

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INTRODUCTION
Greet the students and introduce the topic:
“Today, we are going to explore figures of speech, which
are ways writers use language to make their writing
more interesting, colorful, and imaginative.”
Ask a question to engage the class: “Have you ever
heard someone say, ‘I’m as busy as a bee?’
That’s an example of a figure of speech called a simile.”
Now we briefly explain three key figures of speech with
simple examples

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Definition: A figure of speech involving the comparison
of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used
to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
SIMILE
• Example: She’s as brave as a lion.
• Her speech worked like a charm
• This child is as pretty as a picture
• Ask: Can you think of another example?
• Bright as the sun
• Sweet as sugar,
• fight like cats and dogs

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• Definition: A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for
rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by
mentioning another. It may provide clarity or identify
hidden similarities between two different ideas.
METAPHOR
• Example: The classroom was a zoo.
• Allah’s lion
• A snake in the grass
• Bitter pill to swallow
• Alion’heart
• Abackbone
• A shield
• A knight in the shining armour
• A fire fighter
• Ask: Why do you think the classroom was called a zoo?

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Definition: The attribution of a personal nature or human
characteristics to something non-human, or the
representation of an abstract quality in human form. A
figure intended to represent an abstract quality.
PERSONIFICATION
• Example: The wind whispered through the trees.
• Sun smiled down
• She sat down on tired desk
• Incarnation of vice
• Children’s stare begged for ice cream
• Paint brush was their teacher
• Ask: Can the wind really whisper? What does this sentence mean?

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ACTIVITIES
1. Divide class in different groups and
distribute flash cards among participants.
Ask them to write down any poem/verses
which indicates simile in it. PICTURE OF
ISMAEL HANIA
2. Ask participants to make some new
interesting metaphors.
3. Picture of yahya sinwar
4. Ask participants to close their eyes and
imagine you are in a beautiful valley of KEL
(Kashmir). And the sun smiled down on the
field. The wind whispered secrets. The grey
clouds cried drops of rain. Now you can
identify personification in these sentences.
5. Picture of Aran KEL

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ASSESSMENT
Write two sentences of each figure of speech on the white
board and ask participants to identify different figures.
1. The stars were like diamonds in the sky. (Simile)
2. My alarm clock screamed at me this morning.(Personification)
3. The snow is white blanket. (Metaphor)
4. The clouds are cotton candy in the sky. (Metaphor)
5. I ran like a wind. (Simile)
6. Flowers are begging for water. (Personification)

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CONCLUSION
• It is concluded that the figures of speech help the
students to make writing more vivid, creative, and
expressive, engaging and emphatic.

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FEEDBACK
• This micro-teaching session keeps the lesson focused
and interactive, allowing students to grasp the basics of
figures of speech quickly while engaging them in
discussion and practice.

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