This lesson plan aims to reinforce students' understanding of figurative language devices like simile, metaphor, and personification over 58 minutes, including defining the terms, identifying examples in poems, having students write their own examples, and playing a review game to assess learning. The lesson addresses standards around understanding texts, fiction, and poetry by analyzing structures and elements.

1. February 10, 2009
Ms. Durand
Sophomore
College Prep
Figurative Language
Timeline of Lesson: 58 minutes
Abstract – the purpose of this lesson is to reinforce knowledge about simile, metaphor and
personification.
Objectives (at the end of this lesson students will be able to):
• Create figurative language within a poem.
• Identify figurative language within a poem or short story.
Standards Addressed:
ELA Standard 8: Understanding Text
Students will identify basic facts and main ideas in a text and use them as the basis for
interpretation.
ELA Standard 12: Fiction
Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the structure and elements of fiction
and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.
ELA Standard 14: Poetry
Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the themes, structure, and elements of
poetry and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.
Guiding Questions:
Procedure:
7:45 – 7:50 – collect papers. Give back work
7:50 – 8:00 – have students tell you definitions of simile, metaphor and personification.
8:00 – 8:15 – give correct definitions, put examples up on the board and have students tell you
which one is which.
- Simile – a figure of speech that uses the word like, as, than or resembles to compare
things that seem to have little or nothing in common.
Example: I wandered lonely as a cloud
- Metaphor
o Direct metaphor – comparisons between unlike things without using like, as,
than or resembles. Ex: I was a lonely cloud
o Implied metaphor – comparisons between unlike things without using like,
as, than or resembles. Comparisons are not so obvious but what it is

2. comparing to is implied. She barked orders at me, implies that she was
talking harsh and maybe even rude.
- Personification – when we attribute human qualities to a nonhuman thing or to an
abstract idea.
o The water runs
o Misery loves company
- 8:15 – 8:20 – read “Simile” p. 559 silently. Tell them to tell you where if there is
simile metaphor or personification and where it is.
- 8:20 – 8:25 – find simile, metaphor, personification in “Remember” p.608
- 8:25 – pass out create poem papers.
Assessment
8:25 – 8:43 – have students write down one metaphor, simile, and personification.
- Hand out construction paper while doing this
- Collect pieces of paper
- Explain to students about an auction, and raising the right color
- Teams by row across.
- If all students get it right then pick one column and have students answer a
question, fastest one that get it right also has to give another example of a
metaphor, simile or personification.
- Game is done by points, whoever gets the most points wins
Materials:
- Construction paper