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This teaching sequence helps students grasp key literary terms such as simile, metaphor, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and personification. Engage students with examples and discussions, followed by a comprehensive comprehension evaluation.
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Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Simile • Metaphor • Hyperbole • Alliteration • Onomatopoeia • Personification
Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Simile: • A comparison between two unlike things, using “like” or “as”
Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Simile • Example: • The horse ate so much hay it was as large as a house. • Your eyes sparkle like the sun.
Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Metaphor: • A comparison between two unlike things, not using “like” or “as”
Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Metaphor • Example: • “It is East, and Juliet is the sun.” ~Romeo and Juliet • My stepdad is such an evil ogre.
Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Hyperbole: • A figure of speech involving great exaggeration.
Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Hyperbole • Example: • You’ll have so much fun your head will explode! • I am so bored I could just die.
Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Alliteration: • The repetition of consonant or vowel sounds at the beginning of words or within words
Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Alliteration • Example: • Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. • She sells seashells by the seashore.
Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Onomatopoeia: • Use of a word or words whose sound imitates the sound of the thing spoken about.
Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Onomatopoeia • Example: • The door of the old mansion slowly creaked open. • My cat meowed pathetically when I left for work this morning.
Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Personification: • A figure of speech which gives human qualities to an object, animal, an idea or a place.
Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Personification • Example: • The enormous waves beckoned the surfers menacingly. • My ringing cell phone danced across the table.
Teaching Sequence • Have students highlight the literary terms used in each selection • Discuss students’ responses as a class; discuss in length each term, how it is used and what it brings to the piece of literature • Distribute literary terms worksheet and allow students ten minutes to complete independently; go over answers as a class
Comprehension Evaluation: • Four-Square Activity: • The teacher will be able to know if a student understands the terms by completion of the Vocabulary Four-Square. • Students will pick two literary terms and, for each, complete the Four-Square using the term’s name, definition, sentence using it, and an accompanying picture.
