1. A Journey Through Figurative Language

2. Grace Lin wove figurative language all throughout her story, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. Her use of figurative language helped us feel like we were in the story, visualizing the characters, settings and events. What an amazing author!

3. Let’s show her how much we appreciate her gift of language!
Here is how!
Together, we are going to make a digital book full of illustrations of her figurative language.
We will dedicate this book to Grace Lin and send it to her!

4. Directions:
Each pair/trio of students will receive a page number from the book, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon.
Find the figurative language used on that page number. There may be more than one!
Discuss, what type of figurative language is this? What does it mean?

5. Types of Figurative Language
You will be finding these types of figurative language:
Personification
Similes
Metaphors

6. Personification is a kind of figurative language
Personification means to give human thoughts and qualities to nonhuman things

7. The leaves danced as they fell from the trees
What are the leaves doing that leaves can’t really do?

8. The leaves danced as they fell from the trees
That’s right! Leaves can’t dance
This is an example of personification
What is the author trying to tell us about the leaves?

9. The wind whispered through the trees
Can wind really whisper?
What is the author trying to tell us about wind?

10. A simile is another kind of figurative language
A simile is a comparison between two unlike objects using “like” or “as”

11. The waves licked the shore like a kitten lapping milk
What is the author comparing in this simile?

12. The waves licked the shore like a kitten lapping milk
That’s right! The waves are being compared to a kitten lapping milk

13. The waves licked the shore like a kitten lapping milk
What is the author trying to say about the waves—that they are rough and fierce, or small and gentle?

14. A metaphor is another kind of figurative language
A metaphor is a comparison that does not use “like” or “as”

15. The school was a maze of hallways and passages
What is being compared in this metaphor?

16. The school was a maze of hallways and passages
That’s right! The school is being compared to a maze

17. The school was a maze of hallways and passages
What idea is the author trying to express with this metaphor?

18. What is it? The airplane landed as gracefully as a ballerina
Personification
Simile
Metaphor

19. What is it? The water smashed angrily against the rocks
Personification
Simile
Metaphor

20. What is it? My brother’s room was a dark, mysterious cave
Personification
Simile
Metaphor

21. Ready to begin? Directions:
Read your assigned page together.
Find the figurative language on the page.
Fill in the figurative language chart. This is your ticket to receiving white paper and drawing materials.

23. Illustrate your picture with colored pencils and outline with a black Sharpie marker.