Build a Better Metaphor

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Metaphor Review A metaphor is a comparison between two different things. For example: The sun is an egg yolk. My fingers are ice cubes. Love is a battlefield. Can you think of any others?

Adjective Review An adjective is a word that describes a noun. For example: RED SLIMY SONOROUS Can you think of any others? Write your adjective on the blue card.

Concrete Noun Review A concrete noun is a word that refers to a physical and usually visible or touchable object. For example: BUCKET BLADE TOE Can you think of any others? Write your concrete noun on the pink card.

Abstract Noun Review A abstract noun is a word that refers to a concept, quality, or other intangible idea. For example: FRIENDSHIP JEALOUSY BEAUTY Can you think of any others? Write your abstract noun on the yellow card.

Build a Better Metaphor Come to the front and put each of your cards in a pile with cards of the same color. Adjective Concrete Noun Abstract Noun

Build a Better Metaphor Each student comes to the front and picks one card from each pile in order and reads aloud the resulting new metaphor. For example: friendship The red bucket of friendship jealousy The slimy blade of jealousy beauty The sonorous toe of beauty

Build a Better Metaphor We will write them on the board. Which ones seem to work in surprising ways and which ones just plain don’t?

Build a Better Metaphor Write a poem about one of the metaphors by either explaining how it does or does not work. If you finish early, come up with your own metaphor for the same abstract noun using new adjectives and concrete nouns. Write a new poem with your new metaphor.

Warm up Share your Not poem at your table.

Simile Extension Turn your metaphor into a simile. For example: The sun is an egg yolk becomes the sun is like an egg yolk. My fingers are ice cubes becomes my fingers are as cold as ice cubes. Love is a battlefield becomes love is like a battlefield.

Simile Poem Write a poem about the simile by either explaining how it does or does not work. If you finish early, come up with your own simile for the same abstract noun using new adjectives and concrete nouns. Write another poem with your new simile.