Figurative language

Lesson plan on simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, and metonymy in poems by Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath.

Lesson plan on symbol and allegory, with controlled readings of poems by Robert Frost and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Lesson plan on paradox, overstatement, understatement, irony, and satire, with Shelley's "Ozymandias" and a poem by Billy Collins.

Lesson plan on the conceits of Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."

A fill-in review of imagery, figurative language, and allusion.

Short-answer questions on simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, and metonymy.

Define and give examples of five kinds of figurative language.

Short-answer questions on symbol and allegory.

Explain symbol and how it differs from allegory.

Short-answer questions on paradox, overstatement, understatement, and irony.

Define irony and explain its three kinds.

Identify the figure of speech in each quoted line.