During this WebQuest, you will use various websites to help you achieve an understanding of why figurative language is important. You will explore how writers use similes, metaphors, and extended metaphors to make their poems and works more exciting.
1) Step One: Retrieve the definitions worksheet
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2) Step Two: Use the following websites (click below) to help you complete the worksheet.
Metaphor and Simile: What’s the difference?
How to use Metaphors in Creative Writing
3) Step Three: Visit the following website to watch the short BrainPOP movie on similes and metaphors.
4) Step Four: Take the movie quiz to see how much you have learned so far. Print your results.
5) Step Five: Read the extended metaphor poem.
Some of the girls are playing jacks.
Some are playing ball.
But small Narcissa is not playing
Anything at all.
Small Narcissa sits upon
A brick in her back yard
And looks at tiger-lilies,
And shakes her pigtails hard.
First she is an ancient queen
In pomp and purple veil.
Soon she is a singing wind.
And next a nightingale.
How fine to be Narcissa,
A-changing like all that!
When sitting still, as still, as still
As anyone ever sat.
6) Step Six: Complete the Identity worksheet
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7) Step Seven: Use your notes, worksheets, and website information to
write your own extended metaphor poem in Google docs.
8) Step Eight: Staple all worksheets together and turn in your packet.
This includes:
Worksheet 1 (definitions)
Quiz Results (simile and metaphor movie)
Worksheet 2 (Identity Poem)
Extended Metaphor Poem (typed)