Recognize sound devices in poetry (e.g., alliteration, rhythm, rhyme, repetition, onomatopoeia). 0401.8.13

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1. Metaphor quiz - Answer questions about metaphors
2. Personifications, Alliterations, Onomatopoeias, Similes, Metaphors, Hyperboles, Oxymorons, Puns - a matching or flashcard review game at Quia.
3. Rags to Riches - Analogies, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, & Simile - a two person quiz game at Quia.
4. Scratch Dance - lesson plan; Using factual information and personal background experience and knowledge, students will create and perform an original poem about an insect. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
5. Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration, Euphemism, Onomatopoeia - six word play quizzes, each has five examples to categorize Quiz 1 | Quiz 2 | Quiz 3 | Quiz 4 | Quiz 5 | Quiz 6
6. Wartime Poetry: Working With Similes - analyzes a photograph and brainstorms words to describe the characters' senses and feelings
7. Wizards and Pigs: Episode I Poetry Pickle - students identify rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration

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