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Similes Lesson Plan
Similes activities to teach students at various grade levels how to create similes using descriptive language.
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Environmental Modeling Is Like a Simile
This article descibes the "Simile" environmental simulation software package.
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Teaching the Simile
Creating and understanding the simile helps students identify and explain similes in various literary works.
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Poets and Patriotism: Old Glory
This third article in the series about Poets and Patriotism focuses on the United States flag. It also defines literary terms such as metaphor and simile.
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Figuratively Speaking
Understanding and using figurative language expressions opens up a whole new world of understanding and self-expression for junior and senior high school learners.
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Begin the Year With Poetry
A different way to begin your unit about poetry.
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Coffee and Cup
A dialogue between coffee and its cup. So, what's the point...
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Creative Writing and Description
Tips on how to use description as a tool to add depth and texture to a piece of creative writing.
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Dylan Thomas' Do Not Go Gentle
Form, diction, metaphor, and other literary devices enhance the poignancy of Thomas's most noted poem.
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Figurative Language Ice Breaker
Start the year out with a fun literary icebreaker activity that teaches figurative language and literary devices.
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Hughes' Harlem - A Dream Deferred
The noted Harlem Renaissance poet, Langston Hughes, focused primarily on race relations in America during the 1920s and 1930s.
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Imagery in Frost's Dust of Snow
Robert Frost's Dust of Snow is only eight lines long and contains no adjectives, similes or metaphors, yet succeeds in creating a picture in the reader's mind: how?
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Poetry Techniques and Lyric Lesson
Many students do not realize that their favorite song lyrics are actually poetry. From these lyrics, students can identify similes, metaphors, etc.
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Roethke’s 'My Papa’s Waltz'
Theodore Roethe's "My Papa's Waltz" is a fairly literal poem, within the context of its controlling metaphor of the "waltz."
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Flower Theme Unit – Figurative Language Activity
Use the book Dandelions: Stars in the Grass in spring-themed elementary language arts lesson plan teaching how to identify and use figurative language - imagery, simile.
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Poetry for Kids!
The best way to get kids to read and love poetry is to show them how fun it is to write their own poems.
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Figurative Language Activities
Who says that memorizing literary definitions has to be boring? Children can use kinesthetic skills and sense of fun to understand and remember literary terms!
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How To Study A Poem
Whether you are reading a poem for pleasure, or simply trying to pass an exam, these helpful hints should allow you to get to grips with what the poet is trying to say.
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Poets and Patriotism: Other Perspectives / Other Images
This fifth article in the series on Poets and Patriotism focuses on how two poets create unique connections and/or representations between images symbolizing universal ideas and feelings.
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Literary Elements Exam Review
Here is a continued list of literary elements that can be applied to The Tragedy of Julius Caesar to help students prepare for final exams and keep them engaged.
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Polanco's Identity
Julio Noboa Polanco's speaker makes an awkward attempt to assert his desire for freedom. While the sentiment is, no doubt, heartfelt, the poem betrays a lack of skill.
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Theme Poem Project
Students choose a theme, write seven poems and select one published poem on the theme. The poetry booklet needs to be decorated and bound with an attractive cover.
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Another Voice
Melbourne poet, Myron Lysenko, chronicles his recent experiences working with hearing-impaired poets, and discovers a new language at work in the heart of the process.
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Robinson's 'Richard Cory'
"Richard Cory" is a very simple poem: three stanzas describe the subject, Richard Cory, and the fourth stanza shocks the reader with Cory's act of suicide.
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How to Write a Tanka
Teach children how to write a tanka with these easy instructions.
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Dorothy Wordsworth: Sister and Poet
A brief introduction to the poetics in the journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, sister to the Romantic poet William.,A brief introduction to the poetics in the journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, sister to the Romantic poet William.
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Before You Begin Scriptwriting
By the time you're ready to begin writing the first draft, you have thought of many ideas, bits, character traits, settings, snippets of dialogue, and plot lines.
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Poetry for Children
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Reality of the Literature Portion of GED
What to inform your students about on the literary portion of the GED

The command line 1: what is a command line?
The role of commands from the keyboard
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The Downfall of the Lore of the Rings
What have Tolkien scholarship and criticism achieved toward sharing an appreciation of The Lord of the Rings? Are literary analysts exploring Tolkien or their own ideals, masked by a veneer of literary exploration?
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What is Content Editing?
Most writers understand how to edit for grammar, punctuation, and misspelled words, but editing for content can be a bit trickier. Content editing goes beyond the usage
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American Folklore
Folklore spans every continent and people. But few think of America as having a good body of folktales.
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Devices of Style in Children's Writing
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j-toth's P.riceless/U.ntouchable review board
"free rent, like gas and phone, a mamma's boy even though my ass is grown, got the same bedroom since third grade, still be living here when i'm eight hundred and eighty-eight..."--Still Live With My Moms. okay, any emcee who begins his album setting himself up in a degrading position like this (joke or not,) wins the title for most secure emcee in the industry.

Let Words Magnetize Your Kid's Creativity
Get your kids hooked on words and writing with the KIDS' MAGNETIC POETRY BOOK AND CREATIVITY KIT.
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Paul Simon and Wyclef Jean
A look at the song "Fast Car" from Paul Simon and Wyclef Jean, and what it says about music in the 21st century.
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Rhône Part 1: The Rhône Region and its History
Part one of our look at the Rhone region!
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Romantic Invaders Part 1
This article examines the way English Romanticism has played a part in the colonisation of the Australian landscape.
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Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 130
Is Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 a moving and radical attempt to write a realistic love poem, or an attack on his work of his poetic contemporaries?
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Techniques for Verse Action!
Why and, more importantly, how are novels-in-verse so devastatingly effective in portraying action? Let’s look at techniques used in History: The Home Movie.
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The Notebook: A Tribute
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What Happened to Poetry?
A rambling on the loss of poetry.
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Whose Leaves Do Not Wither
In Jewish literature and Scripture, a leaf is a metaphor for life's delicacy and constancy. . .
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Analyze Books to Write Well
Analyzing a book to find techniques that work requires more than just enjoying the story. Here are tips to find real-life applications of all the advice for write
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To Aspiring Poets
There should be a Hippocratic Oath for poets. If poets were held to anything near the standard of physicians, there would be far less doggerel in the world.
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Classic Vs. Modern Poetry (Part Two)
<big>WORKS CITED</big><br> <br> <i>The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton, With a foreword by Maxine Kumin</i>. Copyright © 1981 Maxine Kumin. Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA. <br> <br> "Countee Cullen." <i>The Academy of American Poets Online. </i> <http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=56 > [Accessed Sun. Dec. 10 12:50:53 US/Eastern 2000]. <br> <br> &#8220;Eliot, T.S. 1922. The Wasteland.&#8221; <i>Project Bartleby Online.</i> <http://www.bartleby.com/201/ > [Accessed Mon. Dec. 11 1:15:43 US/Eastern 2000].<br> <br><i> Great Short Works of Edgar Allen Poe, Edited with an introduction by G.R. Thompson</i>. Copyright © 1970 by G.R. Thompson. Published by Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, NY.<br> <br> &#8220;Gwendolyn Brooks.&#8221; <i>The Academy of American Poets Online. </i> <http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=166 > [Accessed Mon. Dec. 11 1:26:37 US/Eastern 2000].<br> <br><i> Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman, With an introduction by Justin Kaplan.</i> Introduction copyright © Justin Kaplan. Published by Bantam Books, New York, NY.<br> <br> &#8220;The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.&#8221; Eliot, T.S. 1917. Prufrock and Other Observations.&#8221; <i>Project Bartleby Online.</i> <http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html > [Accessed Mon. Dec. 11 1:22:20 US/Eastern 2000].<br> <br><i> New Enlarged Anthology of Robert Frost&#8217;s Poems, With an introduction and commentary by Louis Untermeyer</i>. Copyright © 1971 by Louis Untermeyer and Mary Silva Cosgrave. Published by Washington Square Press, New York, NY. <br> <br><i> Selected Poems & Letters of Emily Dickinson, Edited by Robert N. Linscott</i>. Copyright © 1959 by Robert N. Linscott. Published by Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., New York, NY.<br> <br> &#8220;Selection of Poems by Modern American Women Poets.&#8221; Dr. Harvey Kassebaum&#8217;s American Literature Class Handout, Fall 1999. (For Sharon Olds&#8217; &#8220;The One Girl at the Boys&#8217; Party.")<br> <br><i> Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edited and with a foreword by William H. Gilman</i>. Copyright © 1965 by New American Library (a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., New York, NY). <br> <br> &#8220;Sylvia Plath.&#8221; <i>The Academy of American Poets Online.</i> <http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=1064 > [Accessed Sun. Dec. 10 12:53:14 US/Eastern 2000].<br>
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Imagine That
Imagine you're a jelly bean! Learn how beans, in the hands of my friends, helped me learn about non-separateness.
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Original Sin?
An analysis of the problems that game developers face.
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Poetry and Meditation
A Hindu yogi has penetrated our hearts, minds, and souls with his intelligent, perceptive, and deeply spiritual literary works. This essay focuses on <i>Metaphysical Meditations</i>, a book of poem/affirmations that aid in meditation on the Ultimate Reality.
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