This handy booklet for Grades 8-12 can perk up a poetry unit or help students truly understand certain figures of speech: alliteration, cliché, euphemism, hyperbole, idiom, metaphor, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, pun, and simile. Two interesting and student-friendly activities are provided for each literary term.
Metaphors and More : Figures of Speech
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Cheryl Miller Thurston is the president, founder and editor of Cottonwood Press, Inc., which she started in 1986 with a $2000 loan from a friend. Before that she was an English teacher for 13 years, grades seven through university level.