After students have been introduced to metaphors, this lesson plan keeps them in practice by identifying and analyzing the use of metaphors in poetry.

This is a graphic organizer for close reading Desmond Tutu's speech "The Question of South Africa." There are three versions of the response guide for varying levels of student support.

This resource includes a lesson and accompanying activities designed to assist learners at the high school level with engaging with similes on a deeper level. Students will spend time reading excerpts from Robert Frost, William Wordsworth and Toi Derricotte in an attempt to better understand the function of similes. Students will analyze similes from the sources and students will practice writing their own similes using predefined topics.

In this lesson, students will use multiple intelligences to interpret and study Sonnets 29, 116, and 130 by William Shakespeare. Students will focus on metaphor, simile, mood, end rhyme, and iambic pentameter.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. These activities teach students about the vocabulary and language associated with food. Students complete labeling activities, fill in the gap activities, and questions with partners. Students listen, speak, read, and write in these activities. Teacher notes can be found at http://www.tefl.net/esl-lesson-plans/TBW_Food_Sayings_TS.pdf .

These guiding questions have students looking more closely at the figurative language used in the short story, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings."

Good riddles rely upon creative use of metaphor, simile, and metonymy; concrete imagery; and imaginative presentation and description of an object or concept. Because they are games, riddles are an excellent vehicle for introducing students to poetry and poetry writing. Students begin their exploration of riddle poems by reading sample riddle poems and guessing the answers. They then analyze the riddle poems to find the techniques used in the poems and to define what makes a good riddle poem. Students then write a riddle poem together as a class and conclude by writing riddles poems individually and sharing them with the class.

In this lesson asks students to reflect on their writing process, and helps the teacher learn more about students' habits and techniques as writers. Students begin by reading and analyzing the poem "The Writer" by Richard Wilbur, particularly discussing the use of extended metaphor. Students then reflect on their own writing habits, compare themselves as writers to the writer in the poem, and brainstorm possible metaphors for themselves as writers.