Figurative Language and Sound Devices

Standards RL 7.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.

Essential Questions

How is literal meaning different from figurative meaning? Why is it important to make inferences in everyday life? How does figurative language further the theme in a text? How do figurative language and sound devices affect the tone or mood of a text? What is the purpose of repetition in text?

Multiple Intelligences Materials/Resources:

Verbal/ Linguistic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Visual/Spatial

Smartboard activity Suggested song lyrics: Rappers Delight (Sugar Hill Gang Wedding Singer), Firework (Katy Perry), Hound dog (Elvis Presl ey), Candle in the Wind (Elton John), The River (Garth Brooks), Music of the night (Phantom of the Opera), Radio (Beyonce) Teachers choice of poems from Prentice Hall Literature textbook Recommended Poems: The Desert is My Mother (Pat Mora), Life (Naomi Long Madgett), The Courage That My Mother Had (Edna St. Vincent Millay), Loo-Wit (Wendy Rose), Mother to Son (Langston Hughes), The Cremation of Sam McGee (Robert Service) Biographies about poets and authors

Essential Vocabulary:

Figurative language, literal, idiom, metaphor, simile, symbol, personification, alliteration, repetition, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme, meter

Procedures Opening the Lesson

Discuss the definition of idiom and literal. Choose a student to participate in the Smartboard Sorting Activity: Literal or Figurative. The student will organize idioms and their literal meanings into the appropriate category.

Developing the Lesson

Cooperative Learning Activity: Identify figurative language and sound devices in literature. Have groups choose a poem (or choose for them), give each group a copy of the Poetry Map, and have them complete it as a group. Have a whole class discussion on the purpose of repetition in text? Put the following prompts on the Smartboard: How are these (alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyme, and meter) examples of repetition? Give examples of different types of repetition.
1. Smartboard Sorting Activity: Literal or Figurative 2. Poetry Mapping Cooperative Learning Activity: Identify figurative language and sound devices in literature 3. Song Lyric Mapping: Choose a song and have students identify figurative language and sound devices used in the lyrics. 4. Add a Stanza: Give students a poem in which they have to add a stanza to the poem, using similar sound devices as the author. 5. Repetition: Have a whole class discussion on the purpose of repetition in text?

Concluding the Lesson

Unit Assessments
Teacher generated tests Rubrics for grading assignments Teacher observation of class discussion Teacher observation of groups participation and interaction. Teacher edit marks and annotations. Students trade original arguments and trade for peer marking and annotation.

Extending the Lesson

Assessment Questions Enduring Understandings Differentiation

Can students use the writing process to develop an essay on the theme of a text with appropriate, textual support? Can students read and analyze figurative language in a variety of texts? Can students clearly state the main idea of a text?

ELL and IEP: Fill in a diagram in which they sort idiom and literal meanings G/T: Have students write down more idioms and list their literal meanings. ELL and IEP: Provide reading assistance G/T: Have each student choose one of the poems and set it to music or give a rhythmic reading of it.

Name _______________________________________

Date ________

Poetry Mapping
Title of Poem: ____________________________________ Author: __________________________

Directions: Fill in the chart with examples from one poem. Write none if the poem doesnt contain that figurative language or sound device.

Figurative Language
Metaphors

Sound Devices
Alliteration

Repetition

Similes Assonance

Consonance Symbol

Onomatopoeia

Rhyme

Personification

Meter

Name _______________________________________

Date ________

Song Lyric Mapping

Title of Song: ____________________________________ Artist: __________________________

Directions: Fill in the chart with examples from one song. Write none if the song doesnt contain that figurative language or sound device.

Figurative Language
Metaphors

Sound Devices
Alliteration

Repetition

Similes Assonance

Consonance Symbol

Onomatopoeia

Rhyme Personification

Meter