METAPHORS

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METAPHORS

• Another figure of speech.

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Teacher Page

• Content Using Metaphors
• Grade level 6-8
• Creator Lorena Howell
• Map Standards CA 1,4 Goal 1.5,2.1, 2.2
• Can be used with a unit on figurative language
  skills.

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Teacher Page

• Suggestions would include showing the entire show
  while discussing and prompting for student input.
• Copying the information and review slides for
  student to refer to during guided practice and
  projects would be helpful.
• Students could take notes on a blank 3 slide with
  handouts power point page printed in advance.

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What is a METAPHOR?

• Sometimes a comparison is made by speaking of one
  thing as if it were another. This is called a
  metaphor.
• Metaphors compare things that are not very
  similar.

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METAPHOR EXAMPLE

• The comedian was a barrel of laughs.
• Roger is a racehorse.
• My brother is a clown.

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Practice identifying metaphors within a poem.

• The Moons the North Winds cookie,
• He bites it day by day,
• Until theres but a rim of scraps
• That crumble all away.
• The South wind is a baker.
• He kneads clouds in his den,
• And bakes a crisp new Moon.
• That greedy North wind eats again!

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REVIEW

• A metaphor is another figure of speech.
• A metaphor is also a comparison of two things
  that are not usually considered alike.
• This type of comparison does not use the words
  like or as.
• For example, My room is a garbage can.

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Project Part one.

• On your own or in a small group write a short
  poem comparing two things that are not alike.
• Example,
• The ship plows the seas,
• For the mariner to please,
• The ocean is a field,
• For all the world to yield.

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PROJECT PART TWO

• Present your poem to the class.
• Inquire the following information from the class
  during your presentation.
• How many metaphors did you find?
• Explain two things being compared.
• Describe the event within the poem.

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Teacher

• Students can prepare their poems on a
  transparency to present to class.
• Poster boards would also be useful.
• If you laminate the blank poster board students
  can write on it then erase for future use.
• Use a dry erase marker.