Wednesday & Thursday - November 7 & 8 - Figurative Language - Seven Ages of Man

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze author's use of figurative language in poetry in order to create images for the reader.

DO NOW - write definition of figurative language into notebooks

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE uses words that do not have normal, literal, everyday meaning.Certain literary devices—such as similes, metaphors, and personification—can help create word pictures for the reader. 


Direct Instruction

video on reviewing figurative language

Video review of figurative language. - Airplanes

hyperboles

allusions

WHY do authors use figurative language? (What is the purpose? What does it help the reader do?) When writers use figurative language, they are more likely to engage their readers and make their argument more convincing or their story more interesting.


Direct Instruction

Read and analyze Seven Ages of Man - Shakespeare

It is an extended metaphor - What are the stages of life being compared to??

Complete graphic organizer provided according to directions.

Then, in prose form:

Choose one of the stages of life that you relate to the most. Discuss / explain the metaphor for this stage. Explain the images created by figurative language for this stage of life. Then, evaluate (provide your opinion based on information provided) - what is the most important stage of life and why?