Introduction
To familiarize you with the different Figures of Speech
Task
Treasure Hunt
Figures of Speech in English Language
Choose one Web site to explore. Use the information in the Web site to answer the questions below the Web link. Be sure to read the complete articles! After you finish answering your questions, meet with your classmates to find out the answers to the remaining questions. Don't forget to answer the BIG QUESTION at the end.
Process
Integrating the Internet into the Classroom
Facilitator: Michael Krauss
Treasure Hunt
Figures of Speech in English Language
Goal :To familiarize you with the different Figures of Speech
Choose one Web site to explore. Use the information in the Web site to answer the questions below the Web link. Be sure to read the complete articles! After you finish answering your questions, meet with your classmates to find out the answers to the remaining questions. Don't forget to answer the BIG QUESTION at the end.
Website: Figures of Speech
Questions:
1.What is the need to know about different figures of speech?
2.What are different figures of speech you read about in this webpage?
3.Both similes and metaphors make a comparison between two objects. What is the difference between them? Give examples to support your answer.
Web site: Understanding Similes
Questions:
1.Write any five similes that you often use.
2.Choose any five similes that you read for the first time on this web page.
3.Do you think you should use similes in your writing? Why?
Web site: What is alliteration?
Questions:
1.What is alliteration?
2.Is ‘a cute child’ an example of alliteration? Why?
3.Write an Alliteration of your own.
Web site: What are metaphors?
Questions:
1.Find out the three metaphors in the famous verse of The
Highwayman mentioned in the webpage.
2.What do you understand by dead metaphors?
3.What do you understand by mixed metaphors?
Web site: Lets learn about personification.
Questions:
1.How would you recognize personification?
2.Personification helps us to understand the nature and actions of inanimate objects. How?
Web site: Know about Oxymoron
Questions:
1. What is an Oxymoron?
2. List any five oxymorons that you use in your day to day conversation.
Evaluation
Read the poem "Daffodils" by William Wordsworth.
How many figures of speech did you find?
List the different Figures of speech.
Conclusion
Figures of speech are used to add a sparkle to your writing.They help create a vivid picture in the reader's mind.Knowledge of the different figures of speech help the readers to understand poetry better and also helps in enriching their own writing skills.