Cool as a cucumber - Cucumber sitting by a pool having a cool drink

Interactive LessonGrades 3-5

Figurative Language Lesson

Skill: Figurative Language Poems

This lesson explains simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, and understatement. Students learn these techniques and then practice identifying and distinguishing between them with a practice activity. This lesson is adaptable for grades 3-12.

Review

Practice Review

Her voice was sweet like honey.

Choose one answer, then add your follow-up response.

SimileMetaphorPersonificationHyperbole

The sun smiled down on the picnic.

Choose one answer, then add your follow-up response.

SimilePersonificationHyperboleUnderstatement

That joke was so funny that I almost died laughing.

Choose one answer, then add your follow-up response.

SimilePersonificationHyperboleUnderstatement

The classroom was a zoo after the teacher left.

Choose one answer, then add your follow-up response.

SimileMetaphorPersonificationHyperbole

The tornado destroyed the barn because it was a little windy last night.

Choose one answer, then add your follow-up response.

SimilePersonificationHyperboleUnderstatement

The river sparkled like a silver ribbon.

Choose one answer, then add your follow-up response.

SimileMetaphorPersonificationHyperbole

The moon peeked through the clouds to say goodnight.

Choose one answer, then add your follow-up response.

SimileMetaphorPersonificationHyperbole

I'm so thirsty I could drink a river.

Choose one answer, then add your follow-up response.

SimileMetaphorHyperboleUnderstatement

She saw the fire in his eyes when he spoke about his plan.

Choose one answer, then add your follow-up response.

SimileMetaphorPersonificationUnderstatement

After the basement flooded to the ceiling, Jim agreed that they had gotten a bit of rain.

Choose one answer, then add your follow-up response.

SimileMetaphorHyperboleUnderstatement